This volume publishes 27 Greek papyri from the University of Michigan Papyrus Collection dealing with the transport of grain as payment of taxes from Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria or Pelusium, Egypt. Papyrologist Worp (emeritus, Leiden University), who took over as editor of the texts from the late Prof. Sijpesteijn, provides a general introduction to the process of grain transport during the reign of Roman emperor Augustus. Each text is presented with an introduction, the Greek text, English translation, and explanatory notes. The volume includes appended miscellaneous texts, and indexing by consulates and postconsulates, months and days, topographical indications, personal and geographical names. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Bagnall (classics and history, Columbia U.) and Worp (classical studies, U. of Amsterdam) present the second edition of the handbook they first published in 1978 as Stuida Amstelodamensia 8 , investigating the indiction system of Byzantine papyri. The original work has been revised, updated, and incorporated into this greatly-expanded, second edition. The numerous appendices have undergone many changes; among them, the Era of Diocletian has been extended to include the Era of the Martyrs; regnal titulature has been added, along with oath formulas that are in many cases parallel; and there are tables of the 'Saracene' years, datings by the moon in Greek texts from Nubia, and weekdays from Egypt and Nubia. Indexed by Greek works, subject, and source. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)