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Papyrus 2457
- Record Id:
- 040-002105490
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000171
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124445.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2457
- Title:
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Declaration of Pagan Sacrifice and Account (P.Oxy. XII 1464, TM 21866)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: A libellus (certificate for pagan sacrifice) in which Aurelius Gaion states that, in accordance with Decius’ decree, he, his wife and their three children made the sacrifices and libations to the gods in front of the commissioners of the sacrifices at Oxyrhynchus, and tasted the offerings. Gaion asks them to certify his statement. Written by Aurelius Sarapion alias Chaeremon on behalf of Gaion.
Verso: Third-century account with names and sums stated in drachmas. Unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105490 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2457 : Declaration of Pagan Sacrifice and Account (P.Oxy. XII 1464, TM 21866) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1304]/040-002105490
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, damaged to the left (front) and lacking part of its lower portion; the text runs along the fibres on the front, with upper, right and lower margins extant. On the back there are portions of 10 lines of another text, written across the fibres. Housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124445.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0250
- End Date:
- 0250
- Date Range:
- 27 June 250
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 172 x 98 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 220 x 165 mm.
Script: Recto: Cursive hand, with a tendency to slope to the right. Verso: Upright cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, 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 1464
Sel.Pap. II 318 - 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. 190-191, no. 1464.
J. R. Knipfing, ‘The Libelli of the Decian Persecution’, The Harvard Theological Review 16 (1923), pp. 345-390 (pp. 346, 348-360, pp. 383-384, no. 33).
C. Wessely, Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme écrits sur papyrus (Paris: Firmin-Didot 1924), pp. 370-371.
P. Roasenda, ‘Decio e I libellatici’, Didaskaleion 5.1 (1927), pp. 59-60, no. 26.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 352-353, no. 318.
H. I. Bell, ‘Evidences of Christianity in Egypt during the Roman Period’, The Harvard Theological Review 37 (1944), pp. 185-208 (p. 205).
H. MacLennan, Oxyrhynchus: An Economy and Social Study (Amsterdam: AM Hakkert 1968), p. 31.
P. Keresztes, ‘The Decian Libelli and Contemporary Literature’, Latomus 34 (1975), pp. 761-781 (p. 762).
A. Bowman, Egypt after the Pharaohs, 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest (Berkeley: University of California Press 1986), p. 191.
W. Griggs, Early Egyptian Christianity: From its Origin to 451 CE (Leiden-New York: E. J. Brill 1993), p. 110, n. 54.
S. J. Davis, The Cult of Saint Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press 2001), p. 202.
J. Kamil, Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs: The Coptic Orthodox Church (London-New York: Routledge 2002), p. 72.
R. Selinger, The Mid-Third Century Persecutions of Decius and Valerian (Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2002), p. 150, no. 77.
P. Parsons, City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2007), p. 202.
AM. Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus papyri (Cambridge, Mass.-London: Harvard University Press 2008), pp. 161-164, 166-167, 173 n. 63.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 140.
A. Brent, Cyprian and Roman Carthage (Cambridge-New York: Camberidge University Press 2010), pp. 208-209.
L. H. Blumell, Lettered Christians: Christians, letters, and late antique Oxyrhynchus (Leiden: Brill 2012), pp. 252, 270.
M. Choat, ‘Christianity’, in C. Riggs (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012), pp. 474-492 (p. 481).
T. B. Williams, Persecution in 1 Peter: Differentiating and Contextualizing Early Christian Suffering (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill 2012), p. 184, n. 20.
L. H. Blumell, T. A. Wayment, Christian Oxyrhynchus: texts, documents, and sources (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press 2015), pp. 384-387.
P. Schubert, 'On the Form and Content of the Certificates of Pagan Sacrifices', Journal of Roman Studies 106 (2016), pp. 172-198.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)