Epagathos estate manager of Lucius Bellienus Gemellus
| Name: | Epagathos estate manager of Lucius Bellienus Gemellus |
| Variants: | Lucius Bellienus Gemellus, Epagathos |
| Place: | 00b - Euhemeria (Qasr el-Banat) |
| Century: | AD01 AD02 |
| Begin: | AD 94 |
| End: | AD 110 |
| Language/script: | Greek |
| Material: | papyrus |
| Texts: | 51 |
| ↳ certain: | 38 |
| ↳ uncertain: | 13 |
| ↳ erroneous: | |
| Type: | private business archive (one generation) |
| Protagonist: | Lucius Bellienus Gemellus, born in AD 32, settled after his career as a legionary in the Arsinoites village Aphrodites Berenikes Polis. He owns several fields, especially in the neighbourhood of Euhemereia, where his estate manager Epagathos administers his fields. |
| Description: | 83 certain documents (28 are only described and 33 are still unpublished), 3 uncertain, 1 related. Of the 50 published/described documents, eight have been discovered with the other texts of the archive, but their ilnk with the archive is unclear. The 42 other documents consist of 35 letters, three contracts and four accounts. |
| Studies: | Wegener, P. L. Bat. 3, 1942, commentary at no. 10; Hohlwein, Le vétéran Lucius Bellienus Gemellus, Et. de Pap. 8 (1957), p. 69-91; Lindsay, Daily life in Roman Egypt, 1963, p. 258-265; France, Theadelpheia and Euhemereia, unpubl. diss. Leuven, 1999, p. 138; Azzarello, AfP 54 (2008), p. 179-202; R. Ast / G. Azzarello, Pap. Congr. XXVI (Geneva 2010), p. 67-71 |
| Lists: | Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 252 no. 29; Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz, 1973, p. 61 no. 1.4 |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum Bristol, Museum Brussels, Musées Royaux Cairo, Egyptian Museum Chicago, Haskell Oriental Institute Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Graz, Universität Liverpool, Harold Cohen Library London, British Library New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library New York, Columbia University Oxford, Bodleian Library Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum Princeton, University Library South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Toronto, Victoria University Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Washington, Smithsonian, Library |
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