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Papyrus 2516
- Record Id:
- 040-003726011
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113419542.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471036.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2516
- Title:
- Request for Provisional Registration (P.Diog. 20, TM 10694)
- Scope & Content:
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Conclusion of a request for provisional registration (parathesis) of some property that the applicant has bought; with subscription of Aurelius Antoninus, keeper of the archives (bibliophylax), and dating clause at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003726011 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2516 : Request for Provisional Registration (P.Diog. 20, TM 10694) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2119]/040-003726011
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Lower portion of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete at the bottom and sides; with writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 9 lines written along the fibres from the bottom of a column, with a small trace of another line at the top; upper, right and left margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471036.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0226
- End Date:
- 0226
- Date Range:
- 12 July 226
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 107 x 146 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 160 x 195 mm.
Script: Neat and competent upright cursive hand for the body of the document; large, sloping hand for the subscription.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of 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:
- P.Diog. 20
- 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. 366.
Orsolina Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 577, no. 17.
Paul Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt 1990), pp. 145-7, no. 20, with pl. xv.
Peter van Minnen, ‘Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés by P. Schubert’, Mnemosyne 48 (1995), 507-11.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aurelius Antoninus, archivist and cosmetes, 1st half of 3rd century
Marcus Lucretius Diogenes, 183-226 - Places:
- Arsinoite nome (Fayum), Egypt
Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza), Egypt - Related Material:
- The papyrus may belong to the ‘Archive of (Marcus) Lucretius Diogenes and Aurelius Sarapion’ (TM Arch ID 137).