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Papyrus 2509
- Record Id:
- 040-003726088
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113631188.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471014.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2509
- Title:
- Excerpt from Register recording Civic Status (P.Diog. 6, TM 10715)
- Scope & Content:
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Extract from a register recording privileged civic status. Flavia Primigenia, freedwoman of Flavia Rufilla, acting with her guardian, confirms Roman citizenship for her son Quintus Iulius Gaianus, aged seven, and appends various documentation. The back bears the endorsement. Papyrus 2502(A) + Papyrus 2510 (P.Diog. 7) is another copy of this extract.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003726088 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2509 : Excerpt from Register recording Civic Status (P.Diog. 6, TM 10715) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2133]/040-003726088
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, damaged on the left, otherwise well preserved; written on bothsides. On the front, there are 32 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant, with no blank space left to the right. Vertial folds are still visible. The back bears the beginning of one line written along the fibres at the top of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471014.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0143
- End Date:
- 0161
- Date Range:
- 143-161
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 272 x 212 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 260 mm.
Script: Neat and regular hand, ligatured in places.
- 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. 6
- 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. 6, with pl. v.
Livia Migliardi Zingale, Vita privata e vita pubblica nei papiri d'Egitto: silloge di documenti greci e latini dal I al IV secolo d.C. (Torino: Giappichelli, 1992), pp. 106-7, no. 50.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), pp. 62-3.
Paul Schubert, Vivre en Égypte greco-romaine: une selection de papyrus (Vevey: Editions de l'Aire, 2000), pp. 182-4, no. 62.
Giovanni Geraci, ‘Le dichiarazioni di nascita e di morte a Roma e nelle province’, Mélanges de l'école française de Rome 113 (2001), 675-711 (p. 695).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 73.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 64.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Flavia Primigenia, freedwoman of Flavia Rufilla, 2nd 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).