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Papyrus 746
- Record Id:
- 040-002105135
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003cc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462978.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 746
- Title:
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Report of a Lawsuit on the Identification of a Child (P.Oxy. I 37, P.Lond. III 746 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 79, TM 20699)
- Scope & Content:
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Extract from the official minutes of the strategus Tiberius Claudius Pasion with the report on a court case concerning the identification of a child. Aristocles, advocate of Pesouris, reports that his client had picked up an infant, Heraclas, from the rubbish heap, and had hired Saraeus as a wet-nurse, paying her the wages for two years. Aristocles says that, when Pesouris found out that the child was being starved, he took him away from the Saraeus. The nurse retrieved the child, on the grounds that the child was her own son, while the foundling had died. The strategus states that the child is Saraeus’, and that she may keep him on condition that she returns the money she had received.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105135 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 746 : Report of a Lawsuit on the Identification of a Child (P.Oxy. I 37, P.Lond. III 746 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 79, TM 20699) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0877]/040-002105135
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, incomplete and with detached fragments, damaged in its lower half; writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text comprises two columns of 26 and 10 lines respectively. The intercolumn measures 20-25 mm. Margins partly survive, the left (65 mm) and right being somewhat mutilated. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0049
- End Date:
- 0049
- Date Range:
- 29 March 49
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 310 x 407 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 370 x 460 mm.
Script: Fine upright semi-cursive hand of good size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900. Of these, papyri 739-814 form part of the discoveries made by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt on the site of the ancient Oxyrhynchus.
- Former External References:
- C.Pap.Gr. I 19
Chrest.Mitt. 79
FIRA III 170
Jur.Pap. 90
P.Lond. III 746 descr.
P.Oxy. I 37
Sel.Pap. II 257 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 439.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1898), pp. 79-81, no. 37.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 123).
L. Wenger, Die Stellvertretung im Rechte der Papyri (Leipzig: Teubner 1906), pp. 133-153.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxi, no. 746 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 87-88, no. 79.
P. M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri (Erklärung von Urkunden zur Einführung in die juristische Papyruskunde) (Berlin: Weidmann 1920), pp. 306-308, no. 90.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 194-197, no. 257.
M. V. Biscottini, ‘L'archivio di Tryphon tessitore di Oxyrhynchos’, Aegyptus 46 (1966), pp. 186-292 (pp. 233-236, no. 23).
P. Petit, Le premier siècle de notre ère (Paris: A. Colin 1968), no. 103.
S. Riccobono et al. (eds.), Fontes iuris romani antejustiniani. Pars tertia: negotia, edidit Vincentius Arangio – Ruiz (Firenze: Barbèra 1968), pp. 521-523, no. 170.
H. Metzger, Nachrichten aus dem Wüstensand: eine Sammlung von Papyruszeugnissen (Zürich: Artemis 1974), no. 59.
M. Vandoni, Testi per il corso di papirologia: i documenti di Trifone (dai papiri di Ossirinco) (Milano: Cisalpino Goliardica 1974), no. 10.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 94.
M. M. Masciadri, O. Montevecchi, Corpus Papyrorum Graecarum I. Contratti di baliatico (Milano: 1984), no. 19.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 176.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 134.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 230.
P. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 190), no. 17.
L. Migliardi Zingale, Vita privata e vita pubblica nei papiri d'Egitto: silloge di documenti greci e latini dal I al IV secolo d.C. (Torino: Giappichelli 1992), pp. 132-133, no. 75.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), pp. 117-118, no. 91.
P. Schubert, Vivre en Égypte greco-romaine: une selection de papyrus (Vevey: Editions de l'Aire 2000), pp. 53-55.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 141.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2011), pp. 131, 313, 373, and passim.
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. 487-489, no. 10.3.1.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)