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Papyrus 196
- Record Id:
- 040-002104577
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00037a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123408.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 196
- Title:
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Court Proceedings (P.Lond. II 196, Chrest.Mitt. 87, TM 19965)
- Scope & Content:
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Part of court proceedings held before a high judicial officer (iuridicus) concerning the dispute on some debts that Tertia Drusilla’s husband had incurred when alive due to loans he had received from Agrippinus’ father, named Agrippianus. The debts with the mortgaged plots of land are listed in the second column.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104577 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 196 : Court Proceedings (P.Lond. II 196, Chrest.Mitt. 87, TM 19965) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0115]/040-002104577
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Portion of a papyrus roll, with damage especially in the left half and along the vertical folds. A dark stain is visible in the lower margin, approximately at the middle. The text runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are two wide columns, the first of which presents some text loss, while the second is complete. The space between the columns measures 10-20 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123408.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0138
- End Date:
- 0148
- Date Range:
- 138-148
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 260 x 396 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 315 x 425 mm.
Script: Neat, upright rounded cursive hand, with some detached letters; occasionally smaller and compressed at the end of the lines. A second hand seems responsible for the interlinear addition in column 1, between lines 2 and 3.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 177-208 from L. Paul Philip on 26 March 1891.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 87
P.Lond. II 196 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 407.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 152-154, no. 196.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, ‘Corrections to Kenyon's Catalogue of Brit. Mus. Papyri (II.)’, The Classical Review 12 (1898), pp. 434-436 (p. 434).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 255.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 96-97, no. 87.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 117.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 126.
P. Schubert, ‘P.Gen. I 74 et le procès de Drusilla’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 130 (2000), pp. 211–217.
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. 33-34.
T. Derda, Ἀρσινοΐτης νομός. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplements 7 (Warsaw: Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlag 2006), p. 158.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 370.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gaius Iulius Agrippinus, soldier of the Legio II Traiana Fortis, fl 1st half of 2nd century
Iulius Agrippianus, soldier, late 1st century-early 2nd century - Places:
- Alexandria, Egypt
Arsinoite nome (Fayum), Egypt - Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Gaius Iulius Agrippinus (TM Arch ID 91).