Tebtunis. These texts are from village officials, the village scribe, and the guards. Two new documents from the Tebtunis archive Two papyri have been found that provide evidence regarding two officials, Apion and Kronion, who were in charge of the village record office in Tebtunis during the first half of the 1st century AD. This provides us with more information about certain events in the village of Tebtunis. These documents have been published in two volumes of Papyri from Tebtunis. The village record was directed by Apion from 7 AD to at least 25 AD and by 43 AD it was under the direction of Kronion, son of Apion, until 52 AD. Lexicological significance The Tebtunis papyri frequently provide useful light on the usage of Koine Greek in the New Testament period. For example the verb authentein, "to have authority", a hapax legomenon in the New Testament, is documented three times in relation to "bookkeepers having authority" in P.Fam.Tebt.15 (up to 114-15 AD). Texts from the Tebtunis papyri are referenced in both LSJ and BDAG lexicons. Tebtunis Papyri Volumes The Tebtunis papyri vol. I, edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt and J. Gilbart Smyly, 1902, at the Internet Archive The Tebtunis papyri vol. II, edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt and J. Edgard Goodspeed, 1907, at the Internet Archive The Tebtunis papyri vol. III part 1, edited with translations and notes by Arthur S. Hunt and J. Gilbart Smyly, 1933, at the Internet Archive References Further reading A. M. F. W. Verhoogt, Menches, Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris, Brill Archive 1998, External links Center for the Tebtunis Papyri Umm-el-Baragat (Tebtunis) Ancient Egyptian literature Egyptian papyri Greek-language papyri Hellenistic Egypt Ptolemaic Kingdom Roman Egypt