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Papyrus 2501
- Record Id:
- 040-003798021
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119437028.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470988.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2501
- Title:
- Birth Certificate (P.Turner 29, P.Diog. 2, TM 15713)
- Scope & Content:
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Abstract from a birth register recording the birth of Marcus Lucretius Diogenes by his father Marcus Lucretius Minor. The list of guarantors follows; there is no official subscription. An ornamental border consisting of large crosses runs along the top and left.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003798021 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2501 : Birth Certificate (P.Turner 29, P.Diog. 2, TM 15713) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2284]/040-003798021
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, only slightly torn along the right edge; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears 12 lines, complete, in red ink; margins are extant, the lower being ample. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470988.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0197
- End Date:
- 0197
- Date Range:
- after 197
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 261 x 215; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 270 mm.
Script: Neat, large upright cursive hand, in red ink.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Antinoopolis, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. The three papyri were 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. 2
P.Turner 29 - 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.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘Diplomata Antinoitica’, Aegyptus, 13 (1933), 514-28 (p. 525).
Alan K. Bowman, ‘Two Antinoite Birth Certificates’, in Papyri Greek and Egyptian edited by various hands in honour of E. G. Turner on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (London: British Academy, 1981), pp. 132-39 (pp. 136-37, no. 29).
Paul Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés, (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt, 1990), no. 2.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 73.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)