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Papyrus 2507
- Record Id:
- 040-003798022
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119437919.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471008.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2507
- Title:
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Birth Certificate (P.Turner 30, P.Diog. 3, TM 15714)
- Scope & Content:
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Abstract from an official birth register recording the birth of Herennas by his father Marcus Lucretius Diogenes, whom he had from his divorced wife Ammonarion. There follow the names of three guarantors, the dating clause, the name of the president (prytanis) of the council, and the official subscription of a member of the council of Antinoopolis.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003798022 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2507 : Birth Certificate (P.Turner 30, P.Diog. 3, TM 15714) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2285]/040-003798022
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Dark-brown papyrus sheet, complete except for a detached strip on the right; with surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears 15 lines; all margins survive, the right being imperfect. Seven vertical folds are visible. The back is blank. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471008.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0209
- End Date:
- 0209
- Date Range:
- 17 October 209
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 260 x 287 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 315 x 330 mm.
Script: Fine example of chancery hand. Different hand for the subscriptions in the last two lines.
- 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. 3
P.Turner 30 - 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. 137-39, no. 30, with plate).
Paul Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés, (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt, 1990), no. 3.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 62.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)