P.Mich.inv. 3805 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 3805

Processing Number

2117

Section/Side

Recto

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso is blank

Material

Pap

Size

9.3 x 5.2 cm

Items

1

Lines

8 lines

Mounted

No

Negative

No

Conservation Status

Broken off on the right side; badly damaged at the bottom

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

236 A.D.

Origin

Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

purchased by Prof. Boak in 1925 (report submitted by H.I. Bell, dated May 2, 1925); described as coming from Behneseh (Oxyrhynchus)

Language

Latin (1-3; 8)

Greek (l. 4-7)

Genre

Documentary

Author

Aurelia Diodora

Type of Text/Title of Work

Request for Appointment of a Guardian

Content

(Copy of a) petition to the prefect, to whom Aurelia Diodora requests to appoint Aurelius Theon as her legal guardian. The petition itself is in Latin, but is followed by a subscription of the petitioner and by the consentment of the future guardian, both in Greek; the approval note of the prefect, again in Latin, concludes the text. As the petition and the prefect's approval are in the same hand, the text is probably a copy restituted to Aurelia Diodora, while the original was kept in the prefect's files.

Subject Headings

Guardian and ward--Egypt--Oxyrhynchos.

Literacy--Rome.

Guardian and ward (Roman Law)

Law--Egypt--Oxyrhynchos.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.(Roman Law)

Persons

Mevius Honoratianus, prefect of Egypt;

Aurelia Diodora;

Aurelius Theon alias Asklepios;

Maximinus, Emperor and consul;

Pupienius Africanus, consul;

[- - -] son of Isidoros

Geographica

[Aegyptus]

Translation

To Mevius Honoratianus, prefect [of Egypt, from Aurelia Diodora. I ask you, my lord, to give me] as guardian according to the [Julian and Titian] law [Aurelius Theon. Dated] on the XII of the Kalends of December, in the consulship of our lord [Verus Maximinus Augustus and Pupienius Africanus].

(2nd hand) I, Diodora, have presented [this] petition, [requesting that] Aurelius Theon alias Asklepios [. . .] should be appointed as] my [guardian. I, . . .], son of Isidoros, wrote for her as she [is illiterate. I, Aurelius Theon alias] Asklepios, consent to the petition. Year 3 of the Emperor [Caesar Maximinus Augustus, Hathyr 24].

(1st hand?) As you have wished, [I give you Aurelius] Theon [as guardian according to the Julian and Titian law and to the senatus consultum (?)]

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2117

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Aegyptus 13	Sanders HA	1933	169 -175	Sanders HA , Aegyptus 13, 169 -175, 1933
PMich III	Sanders HA	1936	165	Sanders HA, PMich III, 165, 1936

Information on Publications--Further Republications

Further Republications

Rep Editor - Calderini A; Rep Ser. - Papiri latini; 1945; No_pg. 41

Rep Editor - Cavenaile R; Rep Ser. - CPL; 1957; No_pg. 203

Rep Editor - Modrzejewski J; Rep Ser. - Akten des XIII. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses; 1974; No_pg. 268-269 [= Droit impérial et traditions locales dans l'Égypte romaine, Norfolk, 1990) III, p. 268-269]

Rep Editor - Bruckner A-Marichal R; Rep Ser. - ChLA V.1; 1964; No_pg. 290

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

U. Wilcken, Archiv 11 (1935) p. 137-139

Availability/System Requirements

Scanner Initials

CT

Date Scanned

6/17/1996

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

236

Year End

236

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

2761 x 2165

File Size

173 KB

Record

2117

Link to this Item

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