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Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

P.Penn. Museum inv.E02797 Registration of Property

Title

Registration of Property

Call number

P.Penn. Museum inv.E02797
(Philadelphia, United States, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collection)

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Language

English; Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

61 CE

Place: Oxyrhynchos

Summary

Side 1, Main text (column on the right): The writer registers property from his father, deceased at the end of Nero's third year. Date is missing, but mention of praefect Vestinus (6th-8th years of Nero's reign) fixes it approximately. (Grenfell and Hunt) Side 1, column on the left: It is to all appearances a similar property return and...is dated in the month of Germanicus of the 7th year of an emperor who is almost certainly Nero (Grenfell and Hunt).

Notes

The left fragment is about 6.5 cm wide and 12 cm tall, and the main fragment is about 11 cm wide. The two pieces overlap at the join by about 1.5 cm. Another mutilated document (parts of 15 lines, untranscribed here) is gummed to the left margin of the main document, and is damaged at the top, left and bottom. This makes it appear that there is a vertical crease where the two pieces overlap. One line of writing appears on the other side of the main document perpendicular to the writing on the first side. All the writing is along the fibers. The main document is damaged at the top left, top and bottom, and is missing its right side.
Text mentions Arsinoe and Oxyrhynchos.
Identifier(s): upenn.apis.49; P.Oxy.:2:250.

Extent

16.0 x 22.3 cm

Support

Papyrus

Layout

Side 1: main text is 27+ lines written with the fibers. Text is in two columns, with only the margin separating the two columns still intact. The column on the left has writing perhaps in at least two more hands.

Side 2: one line written with the fibers so as to be perpendicular to text on the opposite side.

Provenance

Excavated by Grenfell and Hunt (1896-7) on behalf of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, and donated to the University Museum in return for its support (1904, Dr. Parrish Collection).

Subjects topical

Documentary
Registration

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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