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Papyrus 2228
- Record Id:
- 040-003779360
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100114500189.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470746.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2228
- Title:
- Registration of House-Born Slaves (SB III 6996, TM 18856)
- Scope & Content:
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Copies of two declarations made by Baebia Rufilla, aged 35, acting with a guardian, registering the birth of two slaves, Phoenicas, aged three, and Zosimus, aged two, born of Tyche, a slave whom she had acquired by purchase. Rufilla states that she has paid the due taxes. Dated some time after 3 April 127.
Column 1: First copy for Phoenicas.
Column 2: Second copy for Zosimus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779360 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2228 : Registration of House-Born Slaves (SB III 6996, TM 18856) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2164]/040-003779360
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, imperfect on the left, otherwise well preserved, only displaying minor abrasion in a few places; written on one side along the fibres; the back is blank. On the front, there are two columns of 17 lines; the first column lacks the left-hand side; upper, lower and right margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470746.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0127
- End Date:
- 0127
- Date Range:
- c. 127
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 208 x 245 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 265 x 295 mm.
Script: Confident upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Akanthopolis, Memphite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2238 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in May 1920.
- Former External References:
- SB III 6996
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.
Wilhelm Schubart, ‘Oikogeneia’, in Raccolta di scritti in onore di Giacomo Lumbroso (1844-1925). Aegyptus Suppl. 3 (1925), pp. 49-67 (pp. 51-52).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter, 1926), no. 6996.
Tenney Frank et al., An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vols 1-6 (1933-1940). Allan C. Johnson, Vol. 2: Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 282, no. 172.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 187.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)