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Add MS 46518

Record Id:

032-002169743

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002169743

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x000160

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 46518

Title:

Notification of Birth (P.Diog. 1, TM 15712)

Scope & Content:

Marcus Lucretius Clemens records a testatio for the purpose of legally recognizing his son, Serenus, as such; the document records the customary dating formulae and witness lists.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002169743

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002169743

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

The inner and outer portions of one panel of a diptych, the other one of which is lost. The document was likely written in duplicate, once inside and once outside, which accounts for missing portions of the beginning and end of each copy, respectively, along with the middle of both texts. The end of the official text (scriptura interior) is preserved in six lines of ink on the bare wood where the wax would have been (similar to Add. MS 41203); the outer side contains names of seven witnesses to the document followed by a space for the placement of seals. The second copy (scriptura exterior), which preserves ten lines of the beginning of the document, appears perpendicular to the witness list and then breaks off at the bottom of the tablet.

There are four holes for the string, three on the inner rim and one about the middle of the outer rim.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0127

End Date:

0127

Date Range:

1 May 127

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Wood, wax.

Dimensions: 96 x 151 x 7 mm.

Script: Old Roman Cursive.The inner and exterior copies of the document are recorded in the same Latin hand, and each witness is a unique signature in a different hand.

Custodial History:

Origin: Contra Apollonopolis, Egypt.

Provenance: Philadelpheia, Egypt. Acquired by Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in Egypt, and presented to University College, London by Petrie. Presented by University College, London, through Professor Jaroslav Čerńy, 10 July 1948.

Former External References:

P.Diog. 1

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Library, 1946-1950 (London, 1979), p. 117.

H. I. Bell, 'A Latin Registration of Birth', Journal of Roman Studies, 27 (1937), 30-36.

A. Merlin, J. Gagé, ‘Périodiques’, L'Année épigraphique Année 1937 (1938), pp. 44-46, no. 112.

R. Cavenaile, Corpus Papyrorum Latinarum III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1957), pp. 275-76, no. 159.

S. Daris, ‘Note per la storia dell' esercito Romano in Egitto’, Aegyptus, 36 (1958), p. 238, n. 5.

R. Seider, Paläographie der Lateinischen Papyri I (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1972), pp. 71-74 & Pl. XV, no. 28.

J. Gilliam, ‘Notes on Latin Texts from Egypt’ in Le Monde grec: pensée, littérature, histoire, documents: hommages à Claire Préaux, ed. by J. Bingen, G. Cambier, G. Nachtergael (Bruxelles: Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1975), pp. 771-73.

J. Gilliam, Roman Army Papers (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1986), pp. 368-70.

W. Brashear, F. Hoogendijk, ‘Corpus tabularum lignearum ceratarumque Aegyptiarum’, Enchoria, 17 (1990), p. 37 & n. 48.

P. Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Bonn: Habelt, 1990), pp. 41-6 & Pl. 1.

L. Migliardi, Vita privata e vita pubblica nei papiri d'Egitto : silloge di documenti greci e latini dal I al IV secolo d.C. (Torino: G. Giappichelli, 1992), no. 3.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 264.

K. Stauner, Das offizielle Schriftwesen des römischen Heeres von Augustus bis Gallienus (27 v.Chr. – 268 n.Chr). Eine Untersuchung zu Struktur, Funktion und Bedeutung des offiziellen militärischen Verwaltungsdokumentation und zu deren Schreibern (Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2004), p. 422, no. 412.

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. 187.

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:

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Knight, Egyptologist, 1853-1942,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/9963139