P.Mich.inv. 512 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 512

Processing Number

2382

Section/Side

Recto

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso is blank

Material

Pap

Size

10 x 10.5 cm

Items

1

Lines

8

Mounted

Yes

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

Broken off at the left, right, and bottom; damaged and faded at places

Palaeographic Description

A cursive of good size and exceptional elegance for a document (Sanders). Chancellery cursive (Marichal). - Kollesis

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

110 A.D.

Origin

Alexandria, province of Egypt

Provenance

Unknown

Acquisition

purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920

Language

Latin

Genre

Documentary

Author

Unknown scribe

Type of Text/Title of Work

Certificate of the assumption of the toga pura

Content

Certificate of the assumption of the toga pura (or toga virilis) by a young Roman man, marking the end of his childhood; this certificate might have been needed if the young man was the son of a veteran, who would have got the rights to Roman citizenship after his birth, when his father retired from military service

Subject Headings

Army(?)

Child

Personal status: Roman citizen

Persons

Servius Scipio Salvidienus and Marcus Peducaeus Pristinus, consuls of 110 A.D.;

Traianus, emperor;

[- - -] Iulianus son of Marcus

Geographica

Alexandrea ad Aegyptum; forum Augusti; Pollia tribus(?)

Translation

Extract from the album of (assumptions of) the toga pura:

[In the consulship of Servius Scipio] Salvidienus Orfitus and Lucius Peducaeus [Pristinus, - - -] in the [13th?] year of the Emperor Caesar [Nerva Traianus Augustus] Germanicus Dacicus [- - -] in Alexandria ad Aegyptum, a copy was made and verified from a record (posted) in the forum of Augustus, [in which was written that which is written below(?)]

[- - -] Iulianus, son of Marcus, of the Pollian tribe [records his son - - -] to have assumed the [toga] pura [- - -]

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2382

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich VII	Sanders HA	1947	433	Pl.VIIb	Sanders HA, PMich VII, 433, 1947, Pl.VIIb
CPL	Cavenaile R	1957	165	Cavenaile R, CPL, 165, 1957

Information on Publications--Further Republications

Further Republications

Rep_editor - Arangio-Ruiz V; Rep_Ser. - F.I.R.A. III. Negotia; Rep_Year 1969(2); Rep_Pg_No 5ter

Rep_editor - Seider R; Rep_Ser. - Palaeographie der lateinischen Papyri; Rep_Year 1972; Rep_Pg_No 23 (with pl. XI)

Rep_editor - Bruckner A-Marichal R; Rep_Ser. - ChLA V; Rep_Year 1976; Rep_Pg_No 278

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

E.G. Turner, CR 62 (1948) p. 147; J. Mallon, Paléographie romaine (Madrid, 1952) pl. XIII, 2; V. Arangio-Ruiz, Museum Helveticum10 (1953) p. 238; G. Forni, Atti del XVII Congresso internazionale di Papirologia (Napoli, 1984) III, p. 1029

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

s

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

110

Year End

110

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

3189 x 4087

File Size

2 MB

Record

2382

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2382/512r.tif content_copy

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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:2382 content_copy