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Papyrus 2447
- Record Id:
- 040-002105480
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000167
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124328.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2447
- Title:
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Rescript of Severus and Application to a Strategus (P.Oxy. XII 1405, TM 21815)
- Scope & Content:
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Petition from Aemilius Stephanus, of the village of Sinkepha, to Aurelius Leonides, strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, complaining about his appointment as a tax collector. He refuses the duty and cedes his property in accordance with the rescript of the emperor Severus, which is provided at the beginning.
Lines 1-13: Rescript of Severus on the right to surrender one’s property to the person responsible for the nomination to escape the public service (cessio bonorum);
Lines 14-end: Petition of Aemilius Stephanus to Leonides.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105480 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2447 : Rescript of Severus and Application to a Strategus (P.Oxy. XII 1405, TM 21815) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1298]/040-002105480
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A papyrus sheet, in poor condition, broken at the top and bottom and with holes throughout; writing is on one side along the fibres. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124328.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0236
- End Date:
- 0237
- Date Range:
- 236-237
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 137 x 75 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 190 x 130 mm.
Script: Small cursive hand, sloping to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Sinkepha, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. XII 1405
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 365.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1916), pp. 1-4, no. 1405.
F. F. Abbott, A. C. Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1926), pp. 538-540, n. 18.
H. B. van Hoesen, A. C. Johnson, ‘A Papyrus Dealing with Liturgies’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 12 (1926), pp. 116-119 (p. 118).
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 620, no. 365.
R. Taubenschlag, ‘The Imperial Constitutions in the Papyri’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 6 (1952), pp. 121-142 (p. 122).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 136.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 61.
W. Williams, ‘The Libellus Procedure and the Severan Papyri’, The Journal of Roman Studies 64 (1974), pp. 86-103 (pp. 88-90).
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XLIII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1975), pp. 43-46.
N. Lewis, ‘Notationes Legentis’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 14 (1977), pp. 149-160 (p. 158 no. 58).
N. Lewis, Life in Egypt under Roman Rule (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press 1983), p. 183 .
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 137.
J. H. Oliver, Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri (Philadelphia: American philosophical Society 1989), n. 240 A.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 185.
N. Lewis, ‘The Humane Legislation of Septimius Severus’, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 45 (1996), pp. 104-113 (p. 109).
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXIV (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1997), pp. 156-159.
B. Kramer, D. Hagedorn, Griechische Papyri der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg (P.Hamb. IV) (Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner 1998), p. 158.
A. Papathomas, ‘Ein neues Reskript der Kaiser Septimius Severus und Carcalla’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 131 (2000), pp. 129-134 (p. 130).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), pp. 149-150.
K.-J. Johne, T. Gerhardt, U. Hartman, Deleto paene imperio Romano: Transformationsprozesse des römischen Reiches im 3. Jahrhundert und ihre Rezeption in der Neuzeit (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2006), pp. 30-31.
C. Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (Berkeley: Calif. Univ. of California Press 2008), pp. 112, 380.
A. Harker, Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt: The Case of the Acta Alexandrinorum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008), p. 131.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 139.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)