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Papyrus 178
- Record Id:
- 040-002104559
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000368
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123310.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 178
- Title:
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Receipt for Repayment of Part of a Dowry with Duplicate (P.Lond. II 178a-b, TM 19960-19961)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt in duplicate form whereby Petronia Sarapias, under the guardianship of her brother, acknowledges that she has received the repayment of 400 out of 1,000 drachmas, which formed her dowry, from her ex-husband Iulius Apollinarius, soldier in the First Apamean cohort of the century of Iulianus. She retains the right to claim the outstanding sum. With subscription of Petronia at the end, written by her brother Gaius Petronius Marcellus as she is illiterate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104559 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 178 : Receipt for Repayment of Part of a Dowry with Duplicate (P.Lond. II 178a-b, TM 19960-19961) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0097]/040-002104559
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus sheets, written on one side along the fibres, with the back being blank. Mounted on cardboard in one glass case.
Left papyrus (A): Almost complete, imperfect at the bottom right edge and with few holes; slight abrasion and surface damage in the upper portion. The text is complete and consists of one column of 27 lines. The blank space at the bottom measures 60 mm.
Right papyrus (B): Broken off at the bottom and lacking the upper left edge, with few small holes and slight surface damage in the middle; well preserved as to the rest. One column of 32 lines survive, the last three lines being mutilated. Upper and left margins are extant; no margin was left to the right.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123310.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0145
- End Date:
- 0145
- Date Range:
- 5 April 145
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 244 x 119 mm; B: 250 x 119 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 295 mm.
Script: Somewhat rough semi-cursive hands, that of B being larger; with subscription at the end, rough and irregular, written by Gaius Petronius Marcellus.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?). Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 177-208 from L. Paul Philip on 26 March 1891.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 178a
P.Lond. II 178b - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), pp. 403-404.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 207-208, no. 178, with pl. 52.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 264.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc.: second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II. I, II (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), plate 149.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 174.
F. Mitthof, ‘Soldaten und Veteranen in der Gesellschaft des römischen Ägypten (1.-2. Jh. n. Chr.)’, in E. Birley (ed.), Kaiser, Heer und Gesellschaft in der römischen Kaiserzeit (Stuttgart: F. Steiner 2000), pp. 377-406 (pp. 397-399 no. 4).
S. E. Phang, The marriage of Roman soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235): law and family in the imperial army (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2001), pp. 46, 225 and passim.
M. C. D. Paganini, ‘Σαραπία and Σαραπει̑οϛ: Two Greek Ghost-Names’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 165 (2008), pp. 169-174 (p. 169).
G. Pfeifer, ‘IV. Paratheke als Umgehungsgeschäft zur Mitgiftbestellung im Rahmen verbotener Soldatenehen in der römischen Prinzipatszeit’, in Fortschritt auf Umwegen: Umgehungund Fiktion in Rechtsurkunden des Altertums (München: Beck 2013), pp. 112–122.
J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 163-165, no. 4.2.1.
J. Urbanik, ‘Husband and Wife’, in P. J. du Plessis, C. Ando, K. Tuori (eds,), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2016), pp. 473-490 (p. 478).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)