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Title: Rescript of the Emperor Gordian
Creator: Gordian III, Emperor of Rome, 225-244
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Tebtunis Papyri
Rights Information: FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited: Direct requests for copies or permission to publish to the Rare Books Curator, The Bancroft Library.
Description: 1 column, 7 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive with a slight slant to the right.
Margins: top, 2 cm.; left, 1.8 cm.; bottom, 10 cm.
On verso: "T 421" in black ink (twice)
Short rescript (written answer) of the Emperor Gordian, directing that failure to register children should not deprive them of their right to legitimacy. The text is dated to the 8th day of the Ides of July (8 July) of the consulship of Iulius Gordianus and Iulius Aviola (289), hence the reference to the Emperor (d. 244) as "deified."
The papyrus was found in a bundle with P.Tebt. 319, 326, 335, 378, 406, and 588.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Legal documents
Extent: 1 item papyrus, complete 18.8 x 15.5 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00068
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Illegitimacy (Roman law)
Illegitimacy--Egypt
Children--Egypt
Documentary papyri
Legal documents

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