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Papyrus 2049
- Record Id:
- 040-002105418
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000126
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123619.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2049
- Title:
- Copy of a Letter about Six Recruits (P.Oxy. VII 1022, ChLA III 215, TM 78569)
- Scope & Content:
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This is the copy of the letter issued by Gaius Minucius Italus, prefect of Egypt, to Celsianus, commander of the cohors III Ituraerorum, about the enrollment of six recruits in the cohort. For each soldier tria nomina, age, and distinctive physical details are recorded. The senior clerk (cornicularius) of the unit, Avidius Arrianus, certified the copy (see lines 24-31).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105418 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2049 : Copy of a Letter about Six Recruits (P.Oxy. VII 1022, ChLA III 215, TM 78569) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0687]/040-002105418
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, rectangular in form. The document, consisting of 31 complete lines, is written on the recto, along the fibres. The verso is blank. Left (13 mm), and bottom (79 mm) margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123619.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 103
- End Date:
- 0103
- Date Range:
- after 24 February 103
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 370 x 87 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 410 x 140 mm.
Script: Clear and upright old Roman cursive. There is some use of ligatures. The average height of letters is 3/5 mm. It is uncertain if lines 27-31 were added by the same hand or by a second one.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, 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:
- CEL I 140
CPL 111
ChLA III 215
Chrest.Wilck. 453
P.Oxy. VII 1022
Rom.Mil.Rec. 87
Sel.Pap. II 421 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 (London: Trustees of British Museum 1925), p. 477.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1910), pp. 150-152, no. 1022; plate 1 no. 1022.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde I.2 (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 535-537, no. 453.
J. Lesquier, L’armée romaine d’Egypte d’Auguste a Diocletien (Le Caire: Institute français d’archèologie orientale 1918), pp. 91, 118, 146, 158, 162.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 572-575, no. 421.
J. F., Gilliam, ‘Enrollment in the Roman Imperial Army’, Eos 48 (1957), pp. 207-216.
S. Daris, ‘Osservazioni ad alcuni papiri di carattere militare’, Aegyptus 38 (1958), pp. 151-158 (pp. 151-152).
R. Marichal, Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters, III Great Britain 1 (Lausanne: Urs Graf 1963), pp. 107-109, no. 215
R. O. Fink, Roman Military Records on Papyrus. The American Philological Association, Monograph 26 (Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University 1971), pp. 352-354, no. 87
R. Seider, Paläographie der lateinischen Papyri, Bd. I Urkunden (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann 1972), pp. 67-69, no. 26.
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), no. 77.
B. Campbell, The Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 337: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge 1994), no. 9.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 182.
T. Dorandi et al., Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters, XLVIII Corrigenda (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag 1997), p. 20, no. 215.
P. Cugusi, ‘Note esegetiche, linguistiche e testuali su papiri latini’, Aegyptus 81 (2001), pp. 307-321 (p. 314).
K. Stauner, Das offizielle Schriftwesen des römischen Heeres von Augustus bis Gallienus (27 v.Chr.-268 n.Chr.). Eine Untersuchung zu Struktur, Funktion und Bedeutung der offiziellen militärischen Verwaltungs (Bonn: Habelt 2004), pp. 35-39.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 137.
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)