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Papyrus 2449
- Record Id:
- 040-002105482
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000169
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124351.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2449
- Title:
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Imperial Rescripts (P.Oxy. XII 1407, TM 31739)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto:
Collection of imperial rescripts from different decades and issued from various places. Imperial titles are mostly preserved, but the subjects in most cases remain obscure.
Column 1, lines 1-8: First rescript as an answer to a petition, from Neapolis (which Neapolis is not stated), dated in 259.
Column 1, lines 9-16: Second rescript, issued from Rome, concerning an official appointment; dated to 238-244?
Column 1, lines 17-21: Third rescript, a letter addressed to the senate and people, mentioning ‘children’. Dated to 240?
Column 2: Fourth rescript (?) of the Emperor Aurelian and new document.
Verso: Official letter, unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105482 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2449 : Imperial Rescripts (P.Oxy. XII 1407, TM 31739) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0681]/040-002105482
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments of different size, written on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. The smaller fragment, which was joined to the larger one, was placed upside down.
The recto preserves the ends of twenty-one long lines forming a column, and the beginnings of a few lines of a second column, partly preserved by the smaller fragment. The intercolumn measures 2--30 mm and the lower margin 28 mm.
The verso was reused for another text, of which parts of 12 lines survive. The upper margin measures 30 mm.
The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0275
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- late 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Larger fragment 161 x 163 mm; Smaller fragment: 38 x 40 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 220 x 260 mm.
Script: Recto: Neat upright cursive; Verso: Somewhat sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. XII 1407
- 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. 6-11, no. 1407.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Further remarks on some imperial titles in the papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 45 (1982), pp. 177-196 (pp. 194, 196).
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘More remarks on some imperial titles in the papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 49 (1982), pp. 97-111.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘More remarks on some imperial titles in the papyri ii’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 54 (1984), pp. 65-82 (p. 77).
F. Hoogendijk, P. van Minnen, (1987) ‘Drei Kaiserbriefe Gordians III’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2 (1987), pp. 41-74 (p. 70 and passim).
J. H. Oliver, Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1989), nos. 290-293.
G. Souris, ‘Notes and corrections to imperial letters i’, Hellenika 40 (1989), pp. 50-61 (p. 56).
W. Eck, ‘Consules ordinarii und consules suffecti als eponyme Amtsträger’, in Actes de colloque de Rome (27-28 mai 1988) (Roma: École française de Rome 1991), pp. 15-44 (p. 22).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 244.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 185.
A. Harker, Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt. The Case of the Acta Alexandrinorum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007), p. 200.
G. Purpura, ‘I papiri e le costituzioni imperiali in Egitto’, Aegyptus 89 (2009), pp. 155-220 (p. 169).
S. Connolly, Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press 2010), p. 37.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)