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The present volume of the journal contains seven papers and nine reviews. The contributions deal with further Greek professional titles, mainly from the Byzantine period [Diethart, part V], the problem of the Roman emperor's tent for military campaigns [Stoll], further professional titles and job titles in papyri, ostraca and inscriptions - part 2: M-O [Reinard], an ostracon against Kleippides Deiniou Acharneus from Kerameikos O 78 [Degelmann], Syrian overseas merchants trading in the Roman Empire [Degen, Reinard], golden denarii in the Periplus Maris Erythraei [Geus, Li] and business ethics in Plato's Republic with the World's First Industrialist [Silvermintz]. The book reviews deal with recent publications on new research on taxes in the Ancient Near East, the creation, reception and response to Seleucid ideology, accounts and bookkeeping in the Ancient World, wages, prices and values in the Roman Empire, Roman law and maritime commerce, the emergence of the modern-type contract in ancient Greece, Roman law in general, the history and memory of Germanicus Caesar, and models of agricultural production in north-eastern Hispania.