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Record Id:

032-002092550

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002092550

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x00035f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 40723

Title:

Appointment of a Guardian (datio tutoris muliebris) (TM 70158)

Scope & Content:

The appointment of a guardian is made by the Prefect of Egypt under the prescriptions of the Lex Julia and Lex Titia as well as a Senatus Consultum in favour of a woman name Herennia Antonia.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002092550

Is part of:

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Hierarchy:

032-002092550

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

2 pieces; one panel of a wooden diptych of rectangular shape; part of the panel has separated from the larger piece. The preserved portion is from the first wax tablet of a diptych covered on one side by a thin coating of black wax; the beginning of the document appears on the inside wax. However, the names of the witnesses and the duplicate copy come on the outside wood of this tablet, rather than on the outside of the second tablet. The names of the witnesses are arranged, as usual, with the names at the top. The part of the tablet not covered on the inside with wax is split off from the left-hand edge, but without loss of text from the copy on wax. On the outside wood, one name of a witness is gone and three or four letters from the beginning of each line of the outside copy of the document.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0126

End Date:

0132

Date Range:

126-132

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Wood, wax.

Dimensions: 68 x 137 x 3 mm; 8 x 133 x 2 mm.

Script: The writing on the wood is a majuscule cursive, of great care and distinctness; that on the wax is much smaller but still clear and elegant. It is badly disfigured by a large number of diagonal scratches running through the center of the tablet.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Acquired as part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan in 1922.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 142.

H. A. Sanders, ‘The Transcript of a Lost Tablet’, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 37 (1938), 191-95.

H. A. Sanders, ‘The Appointment of a Guardian by the Prefect of Egypt’, American Journal of Archaeology, 46 (1942), 94-98.

A. Merlin, ‘Périodiques’, L'Année épigraphique Année 1947 (1948), 8-9, no. 12.

G. Luzzatto, ‘A proposito di una “datio tutoris muliebris” da parte del “praefectus Aegypti”’, Studi in onore di Vicenzo Arangio-Ruiz: nel XLV anno del sup insegnamento, IV (Milan: Jovene, 1953), pp. 377-85.

R. Cavenaile, Corpus Papyrorum Latinarum, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1958), pp. 305-306, no. 200.

W. Brashear, F. Hoogendijk, ‘Corpus tabularum lignearum ceratarumque Aegyptiarum’, Enchoria, 17 (1990), p. 37, n. 45.

K. Worp, A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae Preserved from Classical Antiquity (Leiden-Leuven: Trismegistos Online Publications, 2012; Version 1.0), p. 30, no. 185.

Metadata provided by The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Antonia, Erennia, daughter of L Erennius Valens
Diodorus, Publius
Longus, Marcus Numisius
Titianus, Titus Flavius, Prefect of Egypt