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Papyrus 2506
- Record Id:
- 040-002105535
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001b2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467872.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2506
- Title:
- Copy of the Opening of a Will (ChLA XLVII 1403, P.Diog. 10, TM 10689)
- Scope & Content:
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Opening of the will of Lucius Ignatius Rufinus from Antinoupolis. The text was originally written on tablets from where it was copied here. The testator appoints his brother, Lucius Ignatius Nemesianus as heir to the major part of the estate and leaves to his wife Lucretia Octavia half-interest in a house and a parcel of land. The document is a personal copy issued for the benefit of the parties and reproduced from the official record, deposited in the archives.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105535 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2506 : Copy of the Opening of a Will (ChLA XLVII 1403, P.Diog. 10, TM 10689) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1237]/040-002105535
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment from a papyrus sheet, written on the recto along the fibres. The verso is blank. The text is arranged in one column, almost perfectly preserved. The fragment is complete on all margins: left (30 mm), top (c. 10 mm), right (c. 15 mm) and bottom (c. 10 m). Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467872.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0211
- End Date:
- 0211
- Date Range:
- 3 June 211
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 227 x 240 mm.
Script: The same scribe is responsible for both the old Roman cursive and the Greek cursive, including the signature of the testator, in Greek, and of seven witnesses, in Latin. Medial dots are irregular and appear even after unabbreviated words. There are also apices.
- Custodial History:
- Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2486-2542 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in September 1922. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
- Former External References:
- ChLA XLVII 1403
P.Diog. 10 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1950), p. 367.
R. O. Fink, N. J. Woodall, ‘A Latin Record of the opening of a Roman Will’, in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrology (Oxford: Egypt Exploration Society 1974), p. 34.
R. O. Fink, N. J. Woodall in A. E. Hanson (ed.), Collectanea Papyrologica: Texts Published in Honor of H.C. Youtie (Bonn: R. Habelt 1976), pp. 370-379 no. 64.
P. Schubert in P. Schubert (ed.), Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Bonn: Habelt 1990), pp. 92-101 no. 10.
A. K. Bowman, J. D. Thomas, ‘P.Lond. inv. 2506: a Reconsideration’, The Bulletin of the American Papyrologists 14 (1977), pp. 59-64.
M. Amelotti, ‘Il testamento romano classico alla luce di nuovi documenti’, in Estudios de derecho romano en honore de Alvaro D’Ors (Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra 1987), pp. 152-153.
L. Migliardi Zingale, I testamenti romani nei papiri e nelle tavolette d’Egitto (Torino: G. Giappichelli 19973), pp. 86-89 no. 20.
L. Migliardi Zingale, ‘Note a nuovi documenti testamentari romani’, in Anagennesis 2,1 (1982), pp. 122-123.
M. Leiwo, H. Halla-aho, ‘A Marriage Contract: Aspects of Latin-Greek Language Contact (P. Mich. VII 434 and P. Ryl. IV 612 = ChLA IV 249)’, Mnemosyne 55 (2002), pp. 560-580.
Metadata provided by the PLATINUM project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement nº 636983), University of Naples 'Federico II'.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)