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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 4703
Processing Number
2270
Section/Side
Recto + Verso
Image Side
Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto + Verso
Material
Pap
Size
26 x 9 cm
Items
1
Lines
Recto - 9;
Verso - 14
Mounted
Yes
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
broken off at the top and bottom
Palaeographic Description
Recto: beautiful maiuscule cursive (Sanders)
Status
published
Library
Ann Arbor

Contents

Date
IInd century A.D.
Origin
Colonia Caesarea, province of Mauretania(?)
Provenance
Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Acquisition
26-B17F-A
Language
Latin (Recto)
Greek (Verso)
Genre
Documentary
Author
Demetria & Gaius Valerius Gemellus
Type of Text/Title of Work
Contract Dealing with a Dowry
Content
Beginning of a contract concerning the dowry and children of Demetria, after her marriage with Gaius Valerius Gemellus was made legally invalid by Gemellus' enlistment in the Roman fleet. The back of the papyrus bears the signatures of seven witnesses
Subject Headings
Army (fleet)
Divorce(?)
Marriage
Persons
[- - -] Demetria, daughter of [- - -]cius (Lucius?);
Glaucippus (Glaukippos) son of A- - -ianus, her guardian;
Gaius Valerius Gemellus, miles Classis Augustae Alexandrinae, former husband of Demetria;
Iustus, their son;
Gemellus, their son;
[- - -] Iulius(?), son of Cornelius(?);
[- - -] Tiberinus, - - - (son of Valerius?);
[- - -] Alexandros(?);
[- - -] Serenus(?), son of [- - -]erius (Valerius?);
[- - -] - - - son(?) of [- - -]phidios;
[- - -] Marcus(?), son(?) of [- - -];
[- - -] Manlius(?) Antoninus, son(?) of Lucius(?)
Geographica
Colonia Caesarea; (Classis Augusta) Alexandrina; Quirina(?) (tribus)
Translation
(Recto)
[- - -] Demetria, daughter of [- - -, - - -], dwelling in Colonia Caesarea, 39 years old, of dark complexion, long face, straight nose, and lentil-shaped mark on her right cheek, with Glaucippus, son of A- - -ianus, dwelling in Colonia Caesarea, 48 years old, of dark complexion, long face, straight nose, rather bald and with a scar above the left eyebrow, acting as guardian, to Gaius Valerius Gemellus, a soldier of the Augustan Alexandrian fleet and of the Liburnian galley Dragon, to whom she had been previously married, from which marriage there were born sons, Iustus, 14 years old, and Gemellus, 10 years old, and she has promised and has given to him as her dowry clothing by valuation and cash in counted coin - - -, which dowry the said Valerius Gemellus has acknowledged [that he has received - - -]
(Verso: ends of the signatures of seven witnesses.)

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 81 Sanders HA 1939 581-590 Pl. I-II Sanders HA, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 81, 581-590, 1939, Pl. I-II
TAPA 72 Fink RO 1941 109-124 Pl. I (Recto only) Fink RO, TAPA 72, 109-124, 1941, Pl. I (Recto only)

Information on Publications--Further Republications

Further Republications
Rep Editor - Arangio-Ruiz V; Rep Ser. - F.I.R.A. III. Negotia; 1943; No. 20;
Rep Editor - Sanders HA; Rep Ser. - P.Mich. VII; 1947; No. 442 with Pl. IXa-b;
Rep Editor - Cavenaile R; Rep Ser. - C.P.L.; 1957; No. 210;
Rep Editor - Fink RO; Rep Ser. - Essays Honor CB Welles I; 1966; pg. 9-17;
Rep Editor - Bruckner A-Marichal R; Rep Ser. - Ch.L.A. V; 1976; No. 295, with ph.

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography
Cl. Préaux, CE 31 (1941) p. 146; U. Wilcken, Archiv 14 (1941) p. 169-170; L. Wenger, Sitzungsberichte der Akad. der Wiss. in Wien, Ph.-hist. Kl. 219, 1 (1941) 27-40; A. Segre, Byzantion 16 (1942/1943) p. 566-569; V.B. Schuman, TAPA 74 (1943) p. 202-204 and pl. I (Verso only); V. Arangio-Ruiz, Atti dell'Accademia di scienze morali e politiche della Societa reale di Napoli 61 (1942) p. 257-270 [= Parerga. Note papirologiche ed epigrafiche (Napoli, 1945) p. 24-39, No. 5, with pl. = Studi epigrafici e papirologici (Napoli, 1974) p. 176-187]; L. Wenger, Anzeiger der Akademie der Wiss. in Wien, Ph.-hit. Kl., 1945, p. 100-111; A. Berger, JJP 1 (1946) p. 13-28; R. Taubenschlag, JJP 3 (1949) p. 51, No. 3; R. Marichal, Scriptorium 4 (1950) p. 123, no. 60; J.F.Gilliam, AJP 71 (1950) p. 435; V. Arangio-Ruiz, MusHelv 10 (1953) 239-240; L. Wenger, Die Quellen des roemischen Rechts (Wien, 1953) p. 810 and 812; R. Taubenschlag, The Law of Greco-Roman Egypt (Warszawa, 1955[2]) p. 106, n. 14; 109, n. 21; 127, n. 94; 166, n. 49; G.R. Watson, Roman Soldier (1969) p. 240, no. 176; R. Seider, Palaeographie der lateinischen Papyri I (Stuttgart, 1972) p. 74-75, No. 29, with pl. XV (part of lines 3-6 only); G.I. Luzzatto, Studi in memoria di Guido Donatuti. II (Milano, 1973) p. 557-567 [= Scritti minori epigrafici e papirologici (Bologna, 1984) pp. 509-521]; P.J. Sijpesteijn, ZPE 42 (1981) p. 110; G. Forni, Atti del XVII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia III (Napoli, 1984) p. 1031-1032; H.J. Wolff, Mneme Georgiou A. Petropoulou I (Athena, 1984) p. 79-84; T. Dorandi-J.O. Tjaeder, Ch.L.A. XLVIII, p. 47.

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Record
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