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Papyrus 1734
- Record Id:
- 040-003678483
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105327335.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466095.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1734
- Title:
- Deed of Divorce (P.Lond. V 1712, TM 19729)
- Scope & Content:
- Deed of divorce by mutual agreement between Aurelius Mathias, son of Phoebammon and Helene, oarsman, and Aurelia Cyra, daughter of Ioannes and Tanoe, both from Antinoopolis. An evil demon is blamed for the separation. The ex-spouses acknowledge that they have received back their possessions in full and agree not to take legal action against one another for any matter. Additionally, they both have the right to remarry. A fine shall be paid should either fail to abide by the agreement. As Cyra is pregnant, she agrees to give the child to the father on condition that he pays the expenses for childbirth.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678483 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1734 : Deed of Divorce (P.Lond. V 1712, TM 19729) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1766]/040-003678483
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Dark-brown papyrus, incomplete at the bottom and left, and with a few holes in places; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 26 lines, some of which are very fragmentary. Almost no margin was left at the top and right, while the lower margin is ample. The left margin is poorly preserved. Vertical folds are still visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466095.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0569
- End Date:
- 0569
- Date Range:
- 15 July 569
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 262 x 307 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 360 mm.
Script: Sloping hand of Dioscorus.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Antinoopolis, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1865, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1712
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 144-145, no. 1712.
P. M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri (Erklärung von Urkunden zur Einführung in die juristische Papyruskunde) (Berlin: Weidmann 1920), p. 51.
P. H. A. Wolters, Der Geflügelte Seher (München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1928), p. 41.
L. S. B. MacCoull, Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World (Berkeley: University of California Press 1989), p. 75.
J. Beaucamp, ‘L'Egypte byzantine: biens des parents, biens du couple?’, in D. Simon (ed.), Eherecht und Familiengut in Antike und Mittelalter (München: R. Oldenbourg 1992), pp. 61-78 (p. 70).
J. Beaucamp, Le statut de la femme à Byzance (4e-7e siècle) II: Les pratiques sociales (Paris: De Boccard 1992), pp. 106, 180.
T. Gagos, P. van Minnen, Settling a dispute: Toward a legal anthropology of late antique Egypt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1994), p. 102.
J.-U. Krause, Witwen und Waisen im Römischen Reich II (Stuttgart: Steiner 1994), p. 68.
Z. M. Packman, ‘Still Further Notes on Papyrus Documents with the Imperial Oath’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 207-210 (p. 208)
C. A. Kuehn, Channels of imperishable fire: The beginnings of Christian mystical poetry and Dioscorus of Aphrodito (New York: P.Lang 1995), p. 70.
A. Arjava, Women and law in late antiquity (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998), p. 87.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), pp. 211-212, no. 156.
M. J. Albarrán Martínez, ‘A Nun's Dispute with Her Mother in P.Lond. V 1731’, in T. Gagos, A. Hyatt (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4 2007 (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 7–12 (p. 9, n. 10).
J. Urbanik, ‘Divorce’, in J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 154-175 (p. 159).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)