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Papyrus 2042
- Record Id:
- 040-002105410
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00011b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467061.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2042
- Title:
- Copy of a Birth Declaration (P.Oxy. VI 894, Chrest.Wilck. 213, CPL 158; ChLA III + XLVIII 214, TM 20356)
- Scope & Content:
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The document is a copy of a birth declaration of a legitimate Roman child, whose name is almost completely lost (line 6: ]num). As the piece was found in Oxyrhynchus and the declaration (professio) took place at the prefect’s office in Alexandria, we can surmise that this is the copy given to the parents and not a copy from the album in the prefect’s office. The dating formula (lines 1–2), partially lost in lacuna, mentions a regnal year of Septimius Severus, which must be the fourth (195-196 AD), as the Emperor’s titles Arabicus and Adiabenicus in combination with the prefect’s name Primianus (line 4) suggest. On the verso traces of Latin writing, perhaps figures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105410 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2042 : Copy of a Birth Declaration (P.Oxy. VI 894, Chrest.Wilck. 213, CPL 158; ChLA III + XLVIII 214, TM 20356) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1280]/040-002105410
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment from a papyrus sheet, complete on the right and broken off on all other sides. Written on both sides: on the front, there are lines written along the fibres in one column, on the back, there are traces of Latin writing, perhaps figures. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467061.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0195
- End Date:
- 0196
- Date Range:
- 195-196
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 93 x 105 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 140 x 145 mm.
Script: The same scribe is responsible for both the old Roman cursive and the Greek cursive (in the last line). There is occasional division of words and middle dots regularly mark abbreviations. Accent over long o in [O]x̣yrhyncho (line 7).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2040-2075 by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 3 September 1914.
- Former External References:
- CPL 158
ChLA III + XLVIII 214
Chrest.Wilck. 213
P.Oxy. VI 894 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911–1915 (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1925), p. 477.
F. Schulz (1942) ‘Roman registers of births and birth certificates: part I’, Journal of Roman Studies 32 (1942), 78–91.
F. Schulz (1943) ‘Roman registers of births and birth certificates: part II’, Journal of Roman Studies 33 (1943), 55–64.
G. Bastianini, ‘Lista dei prefetti d’Egitto dal 30a al 299p’, Zeitschrift fur Papayrologie und Epigraphik 17 (1975), 263–321 (pp. 323–8).
G. Geraci, ‘Le dichiarazioni di nascita e di morte a Roma e nelle provincie’, in Melanges de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome: Antiquite 113 (2001/2), 675–711.
G. Purpura, ‘Le dichiarazioni di nascita nell’Egitto romano’, Annali del Seminario Giuridico 49 (2004), 151–63.
C. Sánchez-Moreno Ellart, ‘Notes on some new issues concerning the birth certificates of Roman citizens’, Journal Juristic Papyrology 34 (2004), 107–19.
J. Rowlandson, ‘Registration of birth’, in EAH on-line (accessed in October 2020).
Metadata provided by the PLATINUM project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement nº 636983), University of Naples 'Federico II'.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)