Editions
References to edited papyrus and other documentary texts are indicated by a number directly following the customary abbreviation of the edition (e.g. P.GenizahCambr. 33; BKU 124). References to discussions by the editors are by reference to the line numbers of the edition or a page number in the edition (e.g. Commentary to P.GenizahCambr. 33 ll. 2–3; BKU, p. 25).
Abbreviations for Greek and Coptic documentary texts edited in monographic volumes are given according to the Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, J.F. Oates and W.H. Willis which may be consulted online at:
Arabic papyrus editions are given according to the Checklist of Arabic Documents which appeared first as ‘Checklist of Editions of Arabic Papyri,’ by P.M. Sijpesteijn, J.F. Oates and A. Kaplony, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 42 (2005): 127–166. An updated electronic version can be consulted online at:
In the edition of texts and quotations from text editions the following bracket system has been employed:
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Single square brackets indicate sections where the text is obliterated or missing owing to a lacuna in the papyrus. Where it is possible to calculate the number of letters missing, these are indicated by the appropriate number of dots or written in Arabic numerals within the brackets. Dots outside square brackets indicate that the extant letters cannot be deciphered. |
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Double square brackets enclose erasures. |
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Round brackets indicate the solution of abbreviations. In the translation they indicate additions provided by the editor. |
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Angular brackets enclosure words or phrases which the writer omitted by mistake and are supplied by the editor as a correction. |
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Curly brackets enclose words or phrases which were written by mistake and should be omitted in reading the passage, e.g. dittographies. |
Dates
If not otherwise specified dates given in this volume are C.E. dates. However, if a double date is given, i.e. 99/717, the first is the Muslim Hijri date (A.H.) and the second is C.E.