Textile production in the papyri: the case of private request letters

Abstract

2. For a thorough analysis of requesting in �rivate �a�yrus letters, see my text-driven study (Κορολή 2016), which is based on a vast corpus of c. 8000 private letters on papyri and ostraca dated to the Roman (31 BC-AD 330), Byzantine (AD 330-AD 641) and early Arab periods (AD 641-AD 799) of Egypt. In both that study and the present article, business letters are considered to be a sub-category of private letters. Business activities constitute an integral part of private life. Furthermore, very often business is family business. Finally, to�ics related with business and financial life are interwoven with other issues of �rivate life, so a line cannot really be drawn between private and business correspondence (Κορολή 2016, p. 45). In the present paper, letters dated from the Ptolemaic period (323 BC-31 BC) have also been included. The terms "directive" and "request" are used indiscriminately as general terms denoting all ranges of directive speech acts. The interpretation and translation of the �assages cited are the ones offered in the �a�yrological editions and/or the secondary bibliogra�hy; where none is available, translations are my own.

Dyeing in texts and textiles: words expressing ancient technology

“…22. On ordering textiles, see Bogensperger 2016, see also the article by Aikaterini Koroli, in this volume (Koroli 2020); on the general topic of patterns and samples in Greek papyrus texts, see Bogensperger & Koroli in prep. 23.…”