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Papyrus 2700
- Record Id:
- 040-003909486
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122752480.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2700
- Title:
- Divorce settlement
- Scope & Content:
- Divorce settlement between Aurelia Apia, daughter of Aphonis and Alilla, assisted by her mother, and Aurelius Arious, son of Atouphis and Eirene, of the village of Dinnis. The deed settles the respective rights of the ex-spouses, grants Apia the right to remarry and includes provisions for the care of the two minor children, with the custody being given to the mother. The subscription of Arious at the end was written by Psiax.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003909486 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2700 : Divorce settlement - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2379]/040-003909486
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, almost perfectly preserved, with only some abrasion on the left panel and along the sheet-join, which runs at 65-70 mm from the right edge; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears 27 lines, abraded at the beginning; the left margin measures up to 27 mm, the upper 10 mm and the lower 20 25 mm; no space was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0369
- End Date:
- 0369
- Date Range:
- 369
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 268 x 256 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 305 mm.
Script: Proficient sloping cursive hand; different hand for the subscription at the end, written by a 'slow writer'.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance:
Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2652-2721 from Dr. A. N. Kondilios in July 1925. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Columbia University.
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 370.
Federica Micucci, '''I renounced my children as aforesaid': A Consensual Divorce of 369', The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 58 (2021), 135-48.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aurelia Apia, 4th century
Aurelius Arious, 4th century - Places:
- Arsinoite nome (Fayum), Egypt