| Name: |
Iulius Sabinus and Iulius Apollinaris |
| Variants: |
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| Place: |
00a - Karanis (Kom Aushim) |
| Century: |
AD01 AD02 |
| Begin: |
AD 96 |
| End: |
AD 147 |
| Language/script: |
Greek |
| Material: |
papyrus |
| Texts: |
25 |
| ↳ certain: |
19 |
| ↳ uncertain: |
6 |
| ↳ erroneous: |
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| Type: |
private archive (mainly letters) |
| Protagonist: |
Gaius Iulius Sabinus and his son Gaius Iulius Apollinaris were soldiers in the legio III Cyrenaica. Sabinus is signifer. When the legion leaves for Palestine in AD 106/107 Sabinus is transferred to the legio XXII Deiotariana and stays in Egypt. The son has an interesting military career. In AD 105 he is secutor, in AD 106 librarius legionis, in AD 108 he is in Bosra in Arabia as principalis and in AD 119 he is frumentarius Romae. The family belongs to the social upper class of the metropolitai. |
| Description: |
All texts were found in a single building in Karanis, structure C123, together with the archive of Iulius Sabinus and Iulius Apollinaris. The building was a granary which was later adapted into a house. |
| Studies: |
Husselman, BASP 1 (1963-1964), p. 3-5; P. Mich. 9, 1971, introduction; Alston, Soldier and society in Roman Egypt, 1995, p. 117-142; Strassi, ZPE 139 (2002), p. 161-176 |
| Lists: |
Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 253 no. 33; Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz, 1973, p. 61 no. 1.8 |
| Work: |
Several texts are still unpublished. |
| Collections: |
Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
| Note: |
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