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Gemellus Horion

TM Arch id: 90

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Greek

private: family archive (3 generations)

Found in: 00a - Karanis (Kom Aushim)

AD01 AD02 AD03

Also called archive of Gaius Iulius Niger; Gaius Iulius Apollinarius; Apolinarius; Apolonarius; Gaius Gemellus Horigenes; Horigenes; Gemellus alias Horion

Protagonist: Gaius Iulius Niger is a veteran of the ala veterana Gallica, living in Karanis. His archive is first taken over by his son Gaius Apollinarius Niger and afterwards by his grandson Gemellus alias Horion. Both Iulius Niger, Apollinarius Niger and Horion are Antinoitai and Niger was certainly a Roman. The family owns fields in the neighbourhood of Karanis and at least four houses, seven courtyards and shares in five other houses. (Go to TM People)

Description: 11 petitions, 8 tax receipts, 3 declarations to officials (of which one census return), 2 documents of a house-archive, 1 birth certificate, 1 official letter, 1 epikris-document, [1 "reused document"]

Publication: P. Mich. 6, 9; SB 4, 5, 12, 14, 22, 24

Studies: P. Mich. 6, 1944, p. 117-119; Biezunska Malowist, Eos 49 (1957), p. 155-164; Alston, Soldier and society in Roman Egypt, 1995, p. 129-132

Lists: Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 255 no. 49; Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz, 1973, p. 62 no. 1.10

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40 texts (of which 28 certain, 9 uncertain, 3 related)

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TM number	Publication	Status	Material	Language	Date

TM 12260	P. Mich. 6 421	uncertain	papyrus	Greek	AD 41 - 68 (Claudius? Nero?, Pharmouthi; cf. BL 7, p. 111 (AD 41-68) and BL 8, p. 214 (AD 41-54))
TM 12047	P. Mich. 9 554	certain	papyrus	Greek	AD 93 before (Domitianus, Pharmouthi 19 (Apr 14))
TM 28803	P. Mich. 6 374	related	papyrus	Greek	AD 125 - 175
TM 26769	SB 12 11011	uncertain	papyrus	Greek	AD 130 - 175 (cf. the mention of U15 Antinoopolis)
TM 12265	P. Mich. 6 427	uncertain	papyrus	Greek	AD 138 Jul 10 after (Hadrianus, year 18, Epagomenai 04)