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Papyrus 2500
- Record Id:
- 040-003726017
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113428240.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470982.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2500
- Title:
- Birth Certificate (P.Diog. 4, TM 15715)
- Scope & Content:
- Copy in red ink of the birth certificate for Herennas, submitted by his father, Marcus Lucretius Diogenes; the list of witnesses follows. Large crosses are visible at the top. The original is Papyrus 2507 (P.Turner 30), dated 17 October 209.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003726017 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2500 : Birth Certificate (P.Diog. 4, TM 15715) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2121]/040-003726017
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved; with writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 9 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470982.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0212
- End Date:
- 0217
- Date Range:
- 212-217
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 136 x 269 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 185 x 305 mm.
Script: Neat and competent upright cursive hand in red ink.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Antinoopolis, 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. 4
- 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.
Paul Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt, 1990), no. 4, with plate iii.
Nico Kruit, ‘Age Reckoning in Hellenistic Egypt: the Evidence of Declarations of Birth, Excerpts from the Ephebe Registers, and Census Returns’, in The Two Faces of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Greek and Demotic and Greek-Demotic Texts and Studies Presented to P.W. Pestman, ed. by Arthur M. F. W. Verhoogt, Sven P. Vleeming, (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 1998), pp. 37-58.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)