Zwei Fragmente frühbyzantinischer Rechtsliteratur aus Hermupolis Magna. Neuedition von P. Berol. Inv. Nr. 16976 und 16977. Teil2. Neuedition von P.16976, kurze Texte aus dem 5. Jh. über unterschiedliche Rechtsfragen

• Authors: Thüngen Lothar
• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

P. 16976, one of the two papyri which Wilhelm Schubart published in 1945 in the F estschrift for Leopold Wenger, is to be dated to ad 457–500. It probably belonged to a small codex (which seems to have had no more than 48 pages) with many short legal texts on different subjects. It may have been an ‘Enchirdium on Actual Legal Questions Taken from Imperial Constitutions’ for jurists. Beside the main text, there may have been a separate booklet providing additional juridical comments in the form of paragraphai. While the two parts may have been authored by the same person, a long comment below the main text on the recto is in a different hand. It may thereofre have been copied by a later user from the booklet. This is certainly not a marginal scholion, as believed from the time of Schubart. The subjects included in the preserved piece are two cases from civil law (an actio ex stipulatu against a woman for paying back a credit and getting a title of possession for a provincial estate by the older longi temporis praescriptio), a civil process (prescription of a lawsuit) and a case from fiscal law (confiscation). The last text includes an instruction for the readers.

Keywords

EN

juristic papyrology; legal literature; actio ex stipulatu; longi temporis praescriptio; confiscation; Hermopolis Magna; ‘Enchiridium on Actual Legal Questions’

• Publisher: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
• Journal: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 47
• Pages: 137 - 249

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Thüngen Lothar

Identifiers

ISSN

0075–4277