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v7raT LaS Tro S&arr6rov ri[0 iv FpaTtavo 70T al-wvov]i
AlvyoVrrov TO y" K[a]t [4X(aoviov) 'EKVT(OV TO70
Xaatprpor6rov].
For the formulas of this pair of consuls, see CSBE 113-14.
2. P. Edmondstone
This manumission document was acquired in Egypt by Sir Archibald
Edmondstone, Bart., in 1819, and a lithographic facsimile was published in
T. Young's Hieroglyphics: Collected by the Egyptian Society II (London
1828) pl.46. Texts based on this facsimile were published by Ernst Curtius,9
C. Wessely,10 Grenfell and Hunt," and L. Mitteis,'2 none of whom
apparently ever saw the papyrus or a photograph of it. The papyrus has
provoked extensive commentary and reference, in legal studies
particularly.13
The papyrus itself was subsequently (1831) acquired by Sir Thomas
Phillipps, the renowned and fanatical British book and manuscript
collector.'4 It subsequently passed, along with the rest of the remaining
unsold bulk of the Bibliotheca Phillippica, into the possession of Phillipps'
grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick, and was still there, in Cheltenham, in
the 1930's.15 In 1973 it was sold by Sotheby's in one of their long series of
auctions of Phillipps material.'6 It is owing to the kindness of Sotheby's
9 Anecdota Delphica (Berlin 1843) App. I.
10 Jahresbericht k.k. Staatsgymnasium in Hernals 13 (1886/87) 47-48. Wessely
remarks that the papyrus had disappeared by his time so far as was known at the British
Museum.
11 P. Oxy. IV, pp.202-203.
12 M. Chr. 361.
13 As well as what is listed by Mitteis ad M. Chr. 361; Grundziige 252 nn.2 and 4;
Grundziige 271 ff., see e.g. R. Taubenschlag, "Die Geschichte der Rezeption des romischen
Privatrechts in Aegypten," Studi P. Bonfante I (Milano 1930) 405 = Opera Minora I (Warsaw
1959) 236 esp. n.260; cf. II, 815, index under M. Chrest. 361; E. Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte
Aegyptens als romischer Provinz(Sankt Augustin 1973) 135; 0. Montevecchi, La papirologia
(Torino 1973) 201; Kreller, Erbrechtliche Untersuchungen auf Grund der GraecoAegyptischen Papyrusurkunden (Leipzig 1919) 420 (index); F. Pringsheim, The Greek Law of
Sale (Weimar 1950) 37 n.5; I. Biezunska-Malowist, L'esclavage dans l'Egypte Greco-Romaine
II: Periode Romain (Wroclaw/Warsaw/Krakow 1977) 72 with bibliography, 124, 144, 145.
14 See A.N.L. Munby, Portrait of an Obsession (New York 1967).
15 0. Montevecchi, La papirologia, 455 s.n. Cheltenham, based on Preisendanz,
Papyrusfunde und Papyrusforschung (Leipzig 1933) 286.
16 Bibliotheca Phillippica, Medieval Manuscripts: New Series, Part VIII, Catalogue of
Manuscripts on Vellum, Paper and Papyrus of the 4th to the 17th Century, 28 November
1973, Lot 573; a photograph is printed as PI.I.
