这本书包含了35个文本的版本，这些文本是近100年前在古埃及村庄Karanis发掘出来的，目前仍在等待出版。正如所有书写在埃及乡村纸莎草上的文本一样，这些文本对居住在罗马时期埃及一个典型村庄的人们的生活有了新的认识。这些文本展示了同居者的文化多样性，无论他们是希腊还是埃及名字，无论他们的主要神是鳄鱼还是宙斯。在他们所有人的生活中，纳税扮演着重要的角色，照顾他们的牲畜和田地，做生意，履行罗马政府的义务。特别有趣的是税吏苏格拉底的人物。由于Karanis遗址仍然矗立着（值得一看），其中有两座几乎完好无损的寺庙，它们来自于文本时期，因此从文本和它们背后的考古学中可以看到一个更完整的村庄生活图像。纸莎病学家欢迎每一篇新发表的文章，将其视为他们试图创造的过去马赛克图像的进一步基石。
More Texts from the Archive of Socrates: Papyri from House 17, Level B, and Other Locations in Karanis (P. Cair. Mich. III)
This volume contains editions of 35 texts, which have been excavated nearly 100 years ago in the ancient Egyptian village of Karanis, and which were still waiting publication. As all texts written on papyrus from the Egyptian countryside, these texts give a new insight into the life of the people who dwelled in a typical village of the Roman period in Egypt. The texts show the cultural diversity of those who cohabitated, whether they had Greek or Egyptian names, whether their main gods were the crocodiles or Zeus. In the lives of all of them tax-paying played an important role, as well as caring for their cattle and fields, doing business, and fullfilling the obligations of the Roman government. In particular interesting is the personage of Socrates the tax-collector. Since the ruins of Karanis are still standing (and worth a visit) with two nearly intact temples from the period of the texts, a more complete image of village life emerges from texts and the archaeology behind them. Papyrologists welcome every newly published text as a further stone of the mosaic image that they try to create of the past.
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