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Papyrus 2000
- Record Id:
- 040-003677774
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104454053.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467021.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2000
- Title:
- Declaration of Birth (SB XVI 12742, TM 16282)
- Scope & Content:
- Declaration addressed to the nomarch from Ophelas, son of Nemesion and Tereus, and his wife Hermione, and from his brother Castor, registering the birth of their son, Philantinoos alias Isidorus, twenty-five days old. The declarants refer to the benefits granted by Hadrian for children of Antinoopolis registered within thirty days of their birth. With names of three witnesses of the marriage and parentage, and subscription of Ophelas.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003677774 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2000 : Declaration of Birth (SB XVI 12742, TM 16282) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1711]/040-003677774
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragmentary papyrus sheet with two detached fragments, medium-dark brown; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of 21 lines remain; the upper margin survives. The detached fragment at the bottom bears a few letters from 5 lines and the lower margin. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467021.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0157
- End Date:
- 0157
- Date Range:
- 28 September 157
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 125 x 140 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 180 x 205 mm.
Script: Upright, rapid cursive hand of small size; different hands for the subscriptions in lines 13-15 and 18-end.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Antinoopolis, Egypt.
Provenance: Antinoopolis, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- SB XVI 12742
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), p. 475.
H. I. Bell, ‘Diplomata Antinoitica’, Aegyptus 13 (1933), pp. 514-528 (pp. 518, 521).
R. Pintaudi, ‘Diplomata Antinoitica: i certificati di Philantinoos ho kai Isidoros’, Aegyptus 63 (1983), pp. 105-110, (pp. 106-108, no. I, with pl.).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVI (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1985), no. 12742.
N. Kruit, ‘Age reckoning in Hellenistic Egypt. The evidence of declarations of birth, excerpts from the ephebe registers, and census returns’, in A. M. F. W Verhoogt, S. P. Vleeming (eds.), The Two Faces of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Greek and Demotic and Greek-Demotic Texts and Studies Presented to P.W. Pestman (Leiden: Brill 1998), pp. 37-58 (pp. 43, 46).
G. Geraci, ‘Le dichiarazioni di nascita e di morte a Roma e nelle province’, Mélanges de l'école française de Rome 113 (2001), pp. 675-711 (p. 700, and passim).
C. Sánchez-Moreno Ellart, ‘ὑπομνήματα ἐπιγεννήσεως: the Greco-Egyptian Birth Returns in Roman Egypt and the case of P. Petaus 1–2’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 56 (2010), pp. 91-129 (pp. 92, 101).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)