The Career of Abinnaeus

FOR SEVERAL YEARS in the reign of Constantius, Flavius Abinnaeus served as praefectus of the Ala Quinta Praelectorum and commander of the fort at Dionysias in the Arsinoite nome which it garrisoned. He would be totally unknown to history but for a happy accident of survival. After his service at Dionysias, Abinnaeus appears to have retired to Philadelphia, also in the Fayyuim, taking with him papers relating to his years of military command. In 1892 and 1893 some eighty papyri which had belonged to Abinnaeus were offered for sale in Egypt. Almost all of them found their way into the libraries of the British Museum and the University of Geneva, and in 1962, after most had been published with other papyri from those two collections, virtually the whole of the archive which has survived received exemplary publication under the supervision of Sir Harold Idris Bell.1

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