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The Heroninos Archive is a collection of around a thousand papyrus documents, dating to the third century AD, found at the very end of the 19th century at Harit, the site of ancient Theadelphia, in the Faiyum area of Egypt by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt. The archive is named after Heroninos, the ''phrontistes'' (Koine Greek: manager) of the estate whose records make up a large part of the collection. As well as being the largest single collection of papyri from Roman Egypt, it is also significant for the in-depth picture it gives of the running of a Roman estate. To date, less than half of the documents in the archive have been published. Scholars believe that when it is all published, it will represent "one of the largest coherent groups of documents from the Roman Empire." ==Origin of the archive== The archive contains around a thousand papyrus documents The bulk of the documents are records relating to the management of an estate belonging to Aurelius Appianus. For the period from late-249 to mid-268 the manager of the estate was a man named Heroninos. Most of the letters in the archive are addressed to Heroninos, and come from the managers of other estates in the Arsinoites nome–the area of modern Faiyum–or from the central administration of the estate, which was based in the nome capital of Arsinoe, led by a head official called Alypios. In many cases, the papyrus is significantly older than the document written on it. Reuse of writing materials was a common practice on the Appianus estate, and many of the Heroninos documents feature fragments of earlier texts on the recto, primarily to do with the business of the town council of Arsinoe. One of these documents has been dated to 144 using prosopographical techniques. The documents are not considered to have come from a filing system. Evidence in the archive shows that another employee of the estate, an ''epiktenites ''named Hermias, collated documents by pasting them end to end to form a single length which could be rolled up (a ''tomos sunkollesimos''); while another letter to a farm manager suggests that this man was in the habit of throwing letters in a cupboard and forgetting about them. Nothing suggests that Heroninos pasted his letters together, and while the recovered documents pertain to consecutive months in any regnal year, they do not feature paperwork for any entire year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heroninos Archive」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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