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Papyrus 2458
- Record Id:
- 040-002105491
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000172
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124461.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2458
- Title:
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Petition to the Prefect by Aurelia Thaisous alias Lolliane (P.Oxy. XII 1467, TM 21868)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition to the prefect from a woman named Aurelia Thaisous alias Lolliane, who claims the right to be independent and act without a guardian in her legal transactions on the grounds of being the mother of three children (ius trium liberorum). She stresses to be literate, and requests that this petition be kept in the office of the prefect. The annotation at the end confirms that the document is to be kept there.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105491 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2458 : Petition to the Prefect by Aurelia Thaisous alias Lolliane (P.Oxy. XII 1467, TM 21868) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0678]/040-002105491
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A papyrus sheet, broken at the top and damaged by holes throughout. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text, arranged in one column, is incomplete, lacking a few lines at the beginning. The blank space at the bottom measures 82 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124461.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0263
- End Date:
- 0263
- Date Range:
- 263
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 258 x 81 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 130 mm.
Script: Regular upright hand, with ligatured sequences of letters. Diaeresis on upsilon and iota occurs.
- 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:
- FIRA III 27
Jur.Pap. 14
P.Oxy. XII 1467
Sel.Pap. II 305 - 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. 195-197, no. 1467.
P. M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri (Erklärung von Urkunden zur Einführung in die juristische Papyruskunde) (Berlin: Weidmann 1920), pp. 34-36, no. 14.
A. Burger, ‘Review of P. M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri’, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 39 (1921), pp. 296-311 (pp. 303–306).
A. G. Roos, ‘Animadversiones in papyros nonnullas graecas’, Mnemosyne 51 (1923), pp. 415-420 (pp. 418–420).
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 320-323, no. 305.
S. Solazzi, ‘"Ius liberorum" e alfabetismo. (A proposito di P. Oxy. 12.1467.)’, in S. Solazzi, Scritti di Diritto romano II (Napoli: E. Jovene 1957), pp. 229-237.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Die ХΩΡΙΣ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ХΡНΜАТΙΖОΥΣАΙ ΔΙΚАΙΩ ТΕΚΝΩΝ in den Papyri’, Aegyptus 45 (1965), pp. 171-189 (pp. 176-177).
S. Riccobono et al. (eds.), Fontes iuris romani antejustiniani. Pars tertia: negotia, edidit Vincentius Arangio – Ruiz (Firenze: Barbèra 1968), no. 27.
H. C. Youtie, ‘ἀγράµµατος: An Aspect of Greek Society in Egypt’, in H. C. Youtie, Scriptiunculae II (Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert 1973), pp. 611-627 (pp. 616-617).
H. C. Youtie, ‘ὑπογραφεύς: The Social Impact of Illiteracy in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, in Scriptiunculae posteriores I (Bonn: Habelt 1981), pp. 179–199 (p. 199 n. 62).
G. H. R. Horsley (ed.), New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity: 2: A Review of Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published in 1977 (North Ryde, Australia: Macquarie University 1982), p. 30.
N. Lewis, Life in Egypt under Roman Rule (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press 1983), pp. 62-63.
J. F. Gardner, Women in Roman Law and Society (London: Routledge 1986), p. 20.
S. Pomeroy, ‘Women in Roman Egypt: A Preliminary Study Based on Papyri’, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 10.1 (1988), pp. 708–723 (p. 721).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 246.
R. Haensch, ‘Die Bearbeitungsweisen von Petitionen in der Provinz Aegyptus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 487-546 (p. 506).
P. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 19942), no. 65 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 186.
J. A. Sheridan, ‘Women without Guardians: An Updated List’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996), pp. 117-131 (pp. 120, 130-131).
J. Rowlandson, Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), p. 193, no. 142.
J. A. Sheridan, ‘Not at a Loss for Words: The Economic Power of Literate Women in Late Antique Egypt’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 128 (1998), pp. 189–203 (pp. 198-199) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 150.
J. E. Grubbs, Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood (London-New York: Routledge 2002), pp. 39-40.
C. Fayer, La familia romana: aspetti giuridici ed antiquari II Sponsalia, matrimonio, dote (Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider 2005), p. 593 n.1038.
T. G. Parkin, A. J. Pomeroy, Roman Social History: A Sourcebook (London-New York: Routledge 2007), p. 307, no. 8.11.
E. G. Turner, ‘Roman Oxyrhynchus’, in A. K. Bowman et al. (eds.), Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts (London: Published for the Arts and Humanities Research Council by the Egypt Exploration Society 2007), pp. 141–154 (p. 146 n. 11) reprinted from Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 38 (1952), pp. 78-93 (p. 84 n.1)].
K. Vandorpe and S. Waebens, ‘Women and Gender in Roman Egypt: The Impact of Roman Rule’, in K. Lembke et al. (eds.), Tradition and Transformation: Egypt under Roman Rule (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2010), pp. 415-435 (pp. 420-421).
A. Arjava, ‘The Romanization of Family Law’, in J. G. Keenan et al. (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 186-187, no. 4.3.3.
B. Kelly, ‘Proving the ius liberorum: P.Oxy. XII 1467 Reconsidered’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57 (2017), pp. 105-135.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)