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Aurelius Asklepiades, Adelphios, Aurelia Charite and Demetria alias Ammonia

Name: Aurelius Asklepiades, Adelphios, Aurelia Charite and Demetria alias Ammonia
Variants: Aurelia Charite; Aurelius Asklepiades
Place: U15 - Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein)
Century: AD04
Begin: AD 200
End: AD 355
Language/script: bilingual: Greek and 2 bilingual Greek-Latin
Material: papyrus
Texts: 71
↳ certain: 69
↳ uncertain: 2
↳ erroneous:
Type: private family archive
Protagonist: Aurelia Charite
Description: Contracts of lease, lists of land, tax receipts; Aurelia Charite is a rich lady from the bouleutic class, owning a lot of land; she is able to write herself; other important persons are Adelphios and Asklepiades, her mother, husband and son. The family was probably already christian in the early fourth century (cf. Bagnall, BASP 32 (1995), p. 37-40). Aurelia Charite inherited some papers from her mother Demetria alias Ammonia.
Studies: Martin, Pap. Congr. XX (Copenhagen 1992), 1994, p. 573 shows that this is a real archive and not just a dossier; cf. also Mitthof, P. Kramer, 2009, no. 11-12 with an introduction on the subarchive of Aurelia Demetria alias Ammonia
Lists: Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 577 no. 28
Work:
Collections: Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum
Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek
Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie
Wien, Gymnasium Theresianum
Wien, Nationalbibliothek
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