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Papyrus 251
- Record Id:
- 040-002104624
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003bb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124874.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 251
- Title:
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Sale of Two Slaves (P.Abinn. 64, P.Lond. II 251, Chrest.Mitt. 270, TM 10055)
- Scope & Content:
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Sale of two male slaves for 1200 talents each, purchased by Aurelia Nonna alias Polyeton from Marcus Aurelius Petrus and Marcus Aurelius Zenon, sons of Petrus and Alexandrian citizens. The slaves are Metirus alias Ptillon and his brother Primus, born in Alexandria. With subscriptions of the vendors, warrant and witnesses.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104624 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 251 : Sale of Two Slaves (P.Abinn. 64, P.Lond. II 251, Chrest.Mitt. 270, TM 10055) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0143]/040-002104624
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, darker in places, broken off at the top and damaged by wormholes throughout. Writing is on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. Left, bottom and right margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124874.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0337
- End Date:
- 0350
- Date Range:
- 337-350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 337 x 264 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 380 x 305 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand for the body of the document; five hands for the subscriptions.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria or Philadelpheia, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, or Dionysias, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 229-255 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 14 January 1893.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 270
P.Abinn. 64
P.Lond. II 251 - 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. 416.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 316-318, no. 251.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 302-303, no. 270.
H. I. Bell, V. Martin, E. G. Turner, D. van Berchem, The Abinnaeus Archive. Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1962), pp. 136-139, no. 64.
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
E. Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz (Sankt Augustin: H. Richarz 1973), p. 69, no. 2.7.
J. A. Strauss, ‘La terminologie de l'esclavage dans les papyrus grecs d'époque romaine trouvés en Égypte’, Actes du Groupe de Recherches sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité Année 4 (1976), pp. 333-350 (pp. 337-338).
D. Hagedorn, ‘Marci Aurelli in Ägypten Nach der Constitutio Antoniniana’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 16 (1979), pp. 47-59 (pp. 51, 56).
R. S. Bagnall, Currency and inflation in fourth century Egypt (Chico, CA.: Scholars Press 1985), p. 72.
T. D. Barnes, ‘The Career of Abinnaeus’, Phoenix 39 (1985), pp. 368-374.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 259 no. 73.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘Fourth-Century Prices: New Evidence and Further Thoughts’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 76 (1989), pp. 69-76 (p. 74).
O. Masson, ‘Quand le nom ptolemaios etait a la mode’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 98 (1993) 157–167 (p. 163).
F. A. J. Hoogendijk, ‘Byzantinischer Sklavenkauf’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 42 (1996), pp. 225-234 (p. 232).
J. A. Sheridan, ‘Women without Guardians: An Updated List’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996) 117–131 (p. 123).
J. A. Straus, ‘Liste commentée des contrats de vente d’esclaves passés en Égypte aux époques grecque, romaine et byzantine’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 131 (2000), pp. 135-144 (p. 143, no. 56).
P. Arzt-Grabner, ‘"Neither a Truant nor a Fugitive": Some Remarks on the Sale of Slaves in Roman Egypt and Other Provinces’, in T. Gagos, A. Hyatt (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4, 2007 (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 21-32 (pp. 29-30).
J. Urbanik, ‘P. Cairo Masp. I 67120 recto and the Liability for Latent Defects in the Late Antique Slave Sales or Back To Epaphe*’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 40 (2010), pp. 219-247 (p. 225 n. 15).
K. Harper, Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425 (Cambridge, UK-New York: Cambridge University Press 2011), p. 89.
C. Gallazzi, ‘Dove è stato ritrovato l’archivio di Abinneo?’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 61 (2015), pp. 170-179.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)