This volume is devoted to papyrology, which in this decade of the 80s celebrates its centenary as a branch of classical studies.  Today's state of the art is reflected in the volume's contents which embrace all the principal facets of papyrological study: editions and re-editions of texts and papers - ranging from brief pieces to comprehensive studies - in the many areas of classical antiquity in which our knowledge has been so immeasurably enriched by the discovery and decipherment of Greek and Latin Papyri, viz. Language, govenrment, social and economic history, law, private life. Some of the papers also have interdisciplinary ramifications and the international co-operation that has characterized papyrology from its inception is here readily apparent in the names, different langaugages and institutional affiliations of the contributors.