A List of Birds

Author(s): P. J. Sijpesteijn
Source: Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 30, Fasc. 1 (1977), pp. 69-71
Published by: Brill
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 MISCELLANEA 69

14) Plutarch luckily gave most of three lines of

13, 10). I quote them in Edmond's version (op. cit
? s??????fa??? ?e?? 6de
p??s???eta? t?de??? ?p? t?? ??a????
????, epe?d? t??st?a??? pa????eta?.
We must translate the last clause, with Wilamowitz, as "since the threat
of ostracism has passed" (one was theoretically possible any year) or alter-
natively "since ostracism has effectively gone out of use" (Perikles being
supreme) or "since the time for ostracism has gone by" (Athens being at
war and harmony enforced).
15) See the text in ATL ii D 7 (IG i2 66-h), 73 f. or Meiggs and Lewis,
Greek Historical Inscriptions (1969), no. 46 ([t? ???] f??? ?a? t? pe??s/[???]).
?6) See Meiggs and Lewis, 120 f. and Meiggs, Athenian Empire (1972),
165-7?
17) See W. K. Pritchett, BCH 89 (1965), 428-40; E. Erxleben, Archiv f?r
Papyrus Forschung 21 (1971), 145-53.

A LIST OF BIRDS

Among the papyri acquired in the spring of 1968 by the Univer

of Amsterdam there is a small medium-brown papyrus (7.2
13.1 cm.) which contains two columns of writing x). On palaeogr
phical grounds this papyrus should be dated to the Vth cent
A.D. 2). The writing is along the fibres and the other side is emp
Only the left-hand side of the papyrus is regularly cut off. At
left-hand side there is a margin of over 1 cm. 8).
Column I Column II

? pe??st???? 19 ..[
2 a?t???? 20 ? . e[
3 ???e?pa????> 21 ?.[
4 t??????? 22 t.[
5 st?????? 23 ??[
6 ?e?a?????f?? 24 .[
7 sa?a????da 25 ?[
8 p???a??? 26 t?.[
g ??tta 27 ta[?? (?)
?? ?e??[?]? 28 p.[
11 ???sp?? 29 tet?[
12 ??t?? 30 ?ae[8??(?)
13 ^9[?]??? 31 ta??[????? (?)
14 ???e??a??? 32 ?.[
15 ????ta? 33 ??[
16 ??????? 34 Tt
17 ???????
?8 ??t??
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The papyrus seems to contain a

the fact that among the names
were till now unknown4). The q
papyrus may have served. In my o
It is a well-known fact that in pr
lists of words, mainly proper na
of lists of (Homeric) heroes, gods,
A list with names of birds was fo
nius 7). The quality of the handwr
papyrus published here was a mod
for his pupils to copy.
Notes
?) In front of the p there are illegible ink traces on the papyrus. Cf. pp.
140 ff. For -iv instead of -???, see D. J. Georgacas, On the Nominal Endings
-??, -iv in Later Greek, CIPh 43 (1948), 243 ff. It is a well-known fact that in
Later Greek -??? need not have diminutive force; cf. H. Zilliacus, Zur Sprache
griechischer Familienbriefe des III. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. (P. Michigan 214-
221), Soc. Scient. Fennica. Comment. Hum. Litt. XIII. 3 (Helsingfors
?943), 34 f.
2) The same bird is probably meant as the one called a?s???? / a?s????
(cf. p. 18) = a sort of hawk.
3) Undoubtedly a special kind of peacock: p??? = pavo (cf. line 27).
For the loss of the end -v, cf. F. T. Gignac, Loss of Nasal Consonants in the
Language of the Papyri, Akten des XIII. Internationalen Papyrologenkon-
gresses (M?nchen 1974), *37 *f-
4) The 'diminutive* form of the word t????? (= turtle-dove; cf. pp. 172 ff.)
appears here for the first time.
6) Read ?e?a?????f?? ; for the interchange of ? and ?, cf. E. Mayser-H.
Schmoll, Grammatik der griechischen Papyri (Berlin 1970), I. 1, 161. It is not
certain whether the marsh tit or the blackcap warbler is meant here (cf.
?- 113).
7) This bird is unknown. I can only refer the reader to SB I 5301, where
in a list of birds mention is made in line 13 of a bird( ?) called sa?a????.
8) Read p???a???; for the metathesis of ?? > ??, cf. Mayser-Schmoll,
op. cit., 163. This undoubtedly refers to the same bird as the one called
p??(?)a?(?)?? / p???a??t?? (cf. p. 152) = a kind of pigeon.
10) Hesychius gives ??a??? as an equivalent of ??t?? (cf. p. 76).
11) This bird is unknown to us. Could there be a connection with the
substantive ??????, meaning a 'whistling/piping sound' ?
12) This bird is unknown.
14) This bird is unknown.
15) This might be another notation of the word ?????? (cf. p. 20).
17) ??????? is the diminutive form of ?????. It has, however, the special
meaning of 'chicken', which is probably also the meaning in this papyrus.
23) Instead of a ?, a p could be read.
26) The letter following the ? is probably a s.
27) ta?? is the common word for peacock (cf. pp. 164 ff. ; cf. also line 3).

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28) The letter following the p is pro

29) D'Arcy W. Thompson, op. cit., 1
with tet?a.
30) Bij ?aed?? = ?a??? (cf. pp. no f.),
31) Read ta???????; for the intercha
op. cit., 143 f. ta???????? (cf. p. 164)
pp. 37 f.) = the francol?n.
33) Possibly t?[ or ??[. There are several bird-names beginning with
either t? or ?s.

University of Amsterdam P. J. Sijpesteijn

?) P. Amsterdam Inv. No. 94. In the second column only the initial
of the words have been preserved.
2) Cf. E. G. Turner, Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World (Ox
1971), plate 71; W. Schubart, Griechische Pal?ogtaphte (M?nchen 1925),
plate ???.
3) The scribe, working towards the foot of the column, begins progres-
sively further to the left = Maas's Law (cf. Turner, op. cit., 6).
4) I used D'Arcy W. Thompson, A Glossary of Greek Birds (Oxford 1895)
for identification. The page numbers cited in the notes refer to this book.
5) Cf. R. A. Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman
Egypt2 (Ann Arbor 1965), nos. 2642-2751; G. Zalateo, Papiri scolastici,
Aegyptus 41 (1961), 160 ff.
6) Cf. H. I. Marrou, A History of Education in Antiquity (Mentor Book,
New York 1956), 213.
7) Cf. W. E. Crum - H. G. Evelyn White, The Monastery of Epiphanius at
Thebes II (New York 1928), 621 = Zalateo, loc. cit., no. 276.

DEMO AND THE SABBATH

?? d? se sa??at???? ?at??e? p???? (Meleager, Anth. Pal. V ?6

"If thy lover is some Sabbath-keeper". So Pat?n (LCL), appr
by Gow-Page and Stern1). But does this not strain the Gre
????? in the sense of 'lover' or 'beloved' is not common, bu
can be defended 2). Sa??at????, however, which should mean
taining to the Sabbath', does not seem to be used in the se
'Sabbath-observing' (i.e., Jewish)8). Further, ?at??? is n
verb utilized in erotic texts in a sense compatible with suc
translation (though ??? is so used. See LSJ s.v. A I 4). With
help of a relevant Rabbinic text, one can suggest an altern
explanation of this verse which may be no less likely.
The Rabbis established that the proper routine of sexual relat
for the scholarly and pious man was once a week, on the Sa
(i.e., Friday night). An anecdote is told of one such pious man w
returned home every Friday specifically to satisfy this duty
as a mark of this act of piety, a pillar of light would miraculou

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