. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. Fig. 12.—Ostracon, Thebes, 2nd cent. Order for Payment of in the Authors collection. [p. 123 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 123 anespecially valuable^ example among the inscriptionsof Priene, of about the second century * What light has been shed on the formula eis toovofia, in the name, by the inscriptions, papyri,and not least by the ostraca! To the previousexamples of this, a legal formula* current in theHellenistic world, I can now add from my owncollectio

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. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. Fig. 12.—Ostracon, Thebes, 2nd cent. Order for Payment of in the Authors collection. [p. 123 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 123 anespecially valuable^ example among the inscriptionsof Priene, of about the second century * What light has been shed on the formula eis toovofia, in the name, by the inscriptions, papyri,and not least by the ostraca! To the previousexamples of this, a legal formula* current in theHellenistic world, I can now add from my owncollection an ostracon from Thebes, of the secondcentury , which is important also in other respects(Figure 12). As deciphered by Wilcken the reading is:— Crispus^ to Na . [a] . (?)Pay in the name^^ (for thesouth-west quarter) of VestidiaSecunda (?), represented by^* AidcrreiXov el<i ovo \ei? NoTov*Ovear^ Se/covSai?)^ BianoT^ \iaMapia ^^ vemr ?^ t^? tovirvpov aprap ovo rj- /iiav rpiTov rerpaKaiKoar^* PoUia Maria the younger, the two and a half and a third and a twenty-fourth artabae^of wheat (Here the o

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