Philosarapis
| Name: | Philosarapis |
| Variants: | Philosarapis son of Didymos alias Lysimachos; Family archive of Tebtynis |
| Place: | 00c - Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat) |
| Century: | AD01 AD02 AD03 |
| Begin: | AD 89 |
| End: | AD 224 |
| Language/script: | Greek |
| Material: | papyrus |
| Texts: | 61 |
| ↳ certain: | 51 |
| ↳ uncertain: | 10 |
| ↳ erroneous: | |
| Type: | private family archive (4 generations) |
| Protagonist: | Four succesive archive keepers, following the line of the first-born sons of the ancestor Maron: Herakleides I, Herakleides-Valerius I, Lysimachos-Didymos I and Philosarapis II. They kept texts of other family members as well. The family members are named in the database as in the list of (all possible) family members in P. Fam. Tebt., p. 5-11. For a stemma, see the on-line description of the archive. This archive allows us to study four generations of one of the wealthiest families in the Roman Arsinoites (AD 89-224). Several family members belonged to the 6475 Greek katoikoi, a privileged hellenized class in the Arsinoites nomos. Several members of the family received citizenship of Antinoopolis shortly after AD 130. |
| Description: | The texts of the archive are divided into 20 documents belonging to four subgroups and 31 texts not belonging to subgroups. The four subgroups consists of texts of various types but relating to a single topic. The texts which cannot be assigned to subgroups consist of 18 ‘business documents’, 8 ‘taxation documents’ and 5 records of legal proceedings. |
| Studies: | P. L. Bat. 6, 1950 (= P. Fam. Tebt.); BASP 34 (1997), p. 53-78 |
| Lists: | Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 255 no. 50; Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz, 1973, p. 62-63 no. 1.11 |
| Work: | |
| Collections: |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum Copenhagen, Institute for Greek and Latin Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, Bibliothek London, British Library New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library |
| Note: |