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XXIII.—On a Latin Deed of Sale of a Slave; 24th May, A.D. 166

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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In the year 1893 the British Museum acquired a remarkable Latin deed on papyrus, which, it is believed, was found a short time before in the Fayyum of Egypt. (Plate XLIV.) As in many particulars it is of unusual interest, I submit the following description to the Fellows of the Society.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1895

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page 435 note a Marquardt, , Röm. Statsverwaltung, ii. 485Google Scholar.

page 436 note a Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (3rd ed. 1890), i. 801Google Scholar.

page 436 note b C. I. L., x. 3400—3479 passim, etc.

page 436 note c C. I. L., x. 3496, 3497.

page 436 note d C. I. L., x., Index, Officia Classiaria, p. 1131.

page 436 note e Cf. C. I. L., x., Index, Notabilia, p. 1187, secundum nomen.

page 436 note f Dig. xxi. 1, 31, §21. “Qui mancipia vendunt nationem cujusque in venditione pronuntiare debent.”

page 437 note a Cf. an inscription referring to χώραι [Σ]ομελοκεννησίας καὶ [ὑπ]ερλιμιτάνης, tractus Sumelocennensis (i.e. Rottenburg) et tractus superlimitanus, of the imperial period, given in Westdeutsche Zeitschrift, bd. v. (1886), korresp.-bl. 260.

page 437 note b See Héron de Villefosse, Rapport sur une Mission archéologique en Algêrie, in the Archives des Missions scientifiques et littéraires, 3rd series, tom. ii. (1875), 424; also Soc. Française de Numismatique et d'Archéologie, Comptes rendus, tom. vi. (1875), 184; and C. I. L. viii. 4508.

page 437 note c Dig. xxi. 1, 1. Hunter, Roman Law (1885), 499; Rein, Privatrecht der Römer (1858). 710.

page 437 note d Rein, op. cit., p. 705. Cf. Dig. xxi. 1, 48 ; Rein, op. cit., p. 706; Dig. xxi. 2, 49.

page 438 note a See Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum, iii. 327; Head, Hist. Numorum, 661.

page 438 note b See Clinton, Fasti Hellenici, iii. 357-8, who concludes that at Antioch the month Artemisius coincided with May.

page 438 note c A occurs in a document of A.D. 153-4, printed in Bruns, Fontes Juris Romani Antiqui (Leges et Negotia), 1893, p. 324. Deeds of sale similar in nature to that which forms the subject of this paper will be found in that work, pp. 287, 322, sqq.