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Papyrus 2540
- Record Id:
- 040-003726065
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113531629.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471128.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2540
- Title:
- Application for Appointment as a Guardian (P.Diog. 18, TM 10693)
- Scope & Content:
- Application submitted to Aurelius Didymus, strategus of the division of Herakleides in the Arsinoite nome, by Marcus Lucretius Diogenes through Aurelius Sarapion, requesting to be appointed as a guardian of two of the three underage sons of his sister, Octavia Lucretia, after her death. Octavia Lucretia had had three sons from different marriages, and one of the children was in his father’s custody. The application submitted to the vice-prefect by Marcus Lucretius Diogenes is appended. Two papyri now at the Cadbury Research Library, Birmingham, published as P.Harris I 68(A-B), are copies of the same application.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003726065 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2540 : Application for Appointment as a Guardian (P.Diog. 18, TM 10693) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2127]/040-003726065
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with abrasion in places; the writing runs on both sides. On the front, there are 16 broad lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant, the right being minimal. On the back, there are traces of effaced writing running across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471128.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0225
- End Date:
- 0225
- Date Range:
- 12 January 225
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 217 x 366 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 265 x 420 mm.
Script: Neat and regular sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, 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. 18
- 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. 18, with pl. xiii.
Bruce E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), 187-214 (p. 195, no. 95).
Myrto Malouta, ‘Fatherless persons’, in Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary, ed. by James G. Keenan, Joseph G. Manning, Uri Yiftach-Firanko, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 191-201 (pp. 193-5, no. 4.4.1).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)