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Papyrus 2563

Record Id:

040-002105560

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001d8

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143125046.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2563

Title:

Record of Legal Proceedings (P.Thomas 25, ChLA III 217, TM 78802)

Scope & Content:

This fragmentary document reports the proceedings of a hearing held by a praeses Arcadiae. Despite its scantiness, the preserved text suggests that a procedure per libellum was followed. The plea, probably lodged by at least two people, mentions a city councilman and probably concerned matters of municipal public interest (fiscal issues?). The petitioners apparently demanded that the governor appoint local officials to deal with the matter. The decision of the praeses, unfortunately, is largely unintelligible. Given that the consuls were both viri clarissimi and the name of one of them ended in -tus, the hearing might have taken place in AD 401, 423 or 437. AD 472 must be rejected, since papyri from that year bear a postconsular date (Bagnall and Worp 1980: 114; a different opinion is argued in ChLA III: 114). AD 437 is also unlikely for the same reason.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105560

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2563 : Record of Legal Proceedings (P.Thomas 25, ChLA III 217, TM 78802)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1336]/040-002105560

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres in Latin and Greek and broken off at the top and either side; part of the lower margin is preserved. Mounted on cardboard in one glass case.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

0401

End Date:

0423

Date Range:

401 or 423

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 265 x 85 mm; housed in one glass case measuring 320 x 135 mm.

Script: It appears to have been written by a single chancery hand capable of producing four different styles: enlarged chancery Latin script is used for the Latin heading, new Roman cursive for the Latin framework of the proceedings (very little of which survives), Greek cursive for the statements, and enlarged Greek semicursive for the sentence by the presiding official. The cursive scripts slope to the right, whereas the semicursive ones are upright. Abbreviations are unmarked except for the slash on the d in d(ixit).

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2556-2647 in November 1924, as part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan, Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University, Wilfred Merton (b. 1888, d. 1957), and Alfred Chester Beatty (b. 1875, d. 1968); acquired from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948).

Former External References:

ChLA III 217
P.Thomas 25

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 369.

A. Steinwenter, ‘Neue Urkunden zum byzantinischen Libellprozeß’, in Abhandlungen zur antiken Rechtsgeschichte, Festschrift für Gustav Hanausek zu Seinem 70. Geburtstag am 4.9.1925 (Graz: J. Meyerhoff 1925), pp. 36-51 (p. 37, no. 1).

A. Fliniaux, ‘Contribution à l'histoire des modes de citation au Bas-Empire: la "postulatio simplex"’, Revue historique de droit français et étranger 9 (1930), pp. 193-233 (p. 219).

P. Collinet, Études historiques sur le droit de Justinien 4. La Procédure par libelle (Paris: L. Larose & L. Tenin 1932), p. 57.

J-O. Tjäder, ‘La misteriosa “Scrittura grande” di alcuni papiri ravennati e il suo posto nella storia della corsiva latina e nella diplomatica romana e bizantina dall’Egitto a Ravenna’, Studi Romagnoli 3 (1952), pp. 173-221 (p. 203, no. 21 and Tav. 5).

R. Taubenschlag, The Law of Greco-Roman Egypt in the Light of the Papyri, 332 B.C. -640 A.D. (Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe 1955), p. 504.

A. Bruckner, R. Marichal (eds.), Chartae Latinae antiquiores: Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters Prior to the Ninth Century. Part. 3. British Museum London (Olten: Graf 1963), pp. 114-115, no. 217.

R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, ‘Chronological Notes on Byzantine Documents (VII)’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 17 (1980), pp. 105-117 (p. 114).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 83.

T. Dorandi, J.-O. Tjäder in A. Bruckner, R. Marichal (eds.), Chartae Latinae antiquiores: Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters Prior to the Ninth Century. Part. 48. Addenda (Olten: Graf, 1997), p. 26, no. 217.

T. Gagos, R. S. Bagnall (eds.), Essays and texts in honor of J. David Thomas (Oakville, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists 2001), pp. 225-226, no. 25.

A. Benaissa, ‘A Bishop, a Village, and the Nomination of a Church Steward’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 171 (2009), pp. 175-180 (p. 178 n. 13).

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'.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)