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Papyrus 2460
- Record Id:
- 040-002105493
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000174
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124496.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2460
- Title:
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Application concerning a Remarriage (P.Oxy. XII 1473, TM 21874)
- Scope & Content:
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An application to a strategus from a certain Horion, who is enclosing documents related to his remarriage with his wife Apollonarion, whom he had previously divorced. The beginning is lost, and what remains includes part of the contract of remarriage, a copy of the request of Apollonarion for the appointment of a guardian, the end of the application of Horion to the archidikastes (official with judicial authority) with copies of the signatures, and the authorization of the archidikastes to serve a copy of the application upon Apollonarion.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105493 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2460 : Application concerning a Remarriage (P.Oxy. XII 1473, TM 21874) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1306]/040-002105493
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the top and damaged throughout, especially in the left lower portion. Three scraps, located at the bottom of the frame, remain unplaced. Left and lower margin survive to 10 and 35 mm respectively; no margin was left on the right. The text runs on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124496.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0201
- End Date:
- 0201
- Date Range:
- 4 June 201
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 262 x 254 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 310 x 305 mm.
Script: Expert and neat hand of small size, upright.
- 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 1473
- 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. 212-219, no. 1473.
H. J. Wolff, Written and unwritten marriages in Hellenistic and post-classical Roman law (Haverford, Pa.: American Philological Association 1939), p. 60.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 102.
J. E. G. Whitehorne, ‘A Checklist of Oxyrhynchite Strategi’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 29 (1978), pp. 167-189 (p. 177).
P. Schubert, ‘Observations sur la prytanie en Égypte romaine’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 89 (1979), pp. 235-242 (p. 236 n. 4, p. 238).
P. van Minnen, ‘Gesuch um Bestellung eines Kyrios (P. Flor. III 318 + P. Lond. III 1164A)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 93 (1992), pp. 191-204 (p. 198 and passim).
I. N. Arnaoutoglou, ‘Marital Disputes in Greco-Roman Egypt’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 25 (1995), pp. 11-28 (p. 16).
D. Instone-Brewer, Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context (Grand Rapids, Michigan – Cambridge UK: Wm. B. Eerdmans 2002), p. 207.
T. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung: Untersuchungen zur Verwaltungsgeschichte Ägyptens in der Zeit von Augustus bis Philippus Arabs (30 v.Chr. - 245 n. Chr.) (München: K.G. Saur 2002), Vol. 2, p. 1022.
U. Yiftach-Firanko, Marriage and Marital Arrangements. A History of the Greek Marriage Document in Egypt (München: Beck 2003).
J. M. Ogereau, Paul's Koinonia with the Philippians: a Socio-Historical Investigation of a Pauline Economic Partnership (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014), p. 466.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)