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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt:...the deposit with him of certain articles. B.G.U. 741. A copy of an acknowledgment, addressed to the archidikastes, of a loan on the security of property in the Arsinoite nome, from one soldier to another. These cases, taken with B.G.U. 455 and 614, suggest that the court of the archidikastes at Alexandria was the most convenient place for the deposit of agreements to which soldiers were parties: as their military duties would be apt to take them away from the place at which the agreement was concluded. G.G.P. ii. 71. An authorisation from parties concerned, to a man, to prove a will from Kysis in the Great Oasis before the archidikastes at Alexandria. R.E.G. 1894, vii. p. 301, No. I. An authorisation from the parties concerned, to a man, to present to the archidikastes at Alexandria documents relative to the cession of a share in a certain business at Kysis in the Great Oasis. R.E.G. 1894, vii. p. 302, No. III. Similar to last. G. O. P. i. 34v. An order for the deposit of the records of the SiaAoyj) Taic KaTa naipov dpiSiKacrTtav in the archives at Alexandria. The first point to be decided with reference to the archidikastes is, whether he sat at Alexandria only, or travelled round the nomes. The three documents from the Great Oasis are clearly on the side of the former alternative; and there is nothing against it in the other papyri, except in B.G.U. 136. It is important, however, to notice that in this case, in which alone the archidikastes is found with certainty sitting elsewhere than at Alexandria, the court was held at Memphis; and F. Krebs (Philologus, liii. p. 577 ff.) has pointed out that the high priest of all Egypt similarly appears as sitting at Alexandria and Memphis. Further, the terms of the petitions in B.G. U. 578 and 614, both relating to...