Birth Certificate of an Illegitimate Boy
[- - -], father of Numissius
APIS
michigan.apis.2128
(MiU)2128
78521
78521
p.mich;7;436
P.Mich.inv. 3994
End of the birth certificate of Numissius, the illegitimate boy of a soldier in the Roman army (who, as such, was not allowed to marry); the father's declaration was probably confirmed by the signatures of seven witnesses, now lost. The father might have belonged to the cohors II Ituraeorum, an auxiliary unit stationed in Pselkis at the time
Location: Ann Arbor
Pub. status: Pages III-IV
Latin
WT ; 16.6 x 8.2 cm
Broken off at the bottom (of the wax side); first tablet missing
Page III (wax) - 7;;page IV (wood) - 11
138 A.D.
Pselkis, Nubia, province of Egypt
(Gaius Pomponius) Camerinus & (Canus Iunius) Niger, consuls of 138 A.D
Hadrianus, emperor
Numissius
Unknown
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English
Latin
Pselchis (Pselkis)
Soldiers--Egypt--Pselkis (Extinct city)--Family relationships.
Birth certificates--Egypt--Pselkis (Extinct city)
Illegitimate children--Egypt--Pselkis (Extinct city)
Documentary
Wax Tablet
(Scriptio interior - Page III, on wax);;[- - - declares that a son was born to him from (a woman) at (a given date)] in the consulship [of Camerinus] and Niger, in the place Pselkis, at the winter quarters of the aforementioned cohort, in year 22 of the emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus; that he is called Numissius; that he made attestation of this in accordance with the Aelian-Sentian and Papian-Poppaean laws which were passed concerning the begetting of children; and that he had not been able to register (the birth) because the hindrance [of military service. Dated at the aforementioned Pselkis, at the winter camp of the aforementioned cohort, on - - - in the aforementioned consulship].;;(Scriptio exterior - Page IV, on wood);;[- - - declares that a son was born to him from (a woman) at (a given date)] in the consulship of [Camerinus] and Niger, [in the place Pselkis], at the winter quarters of the aforementioned cohort, [in year 22] of the emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus; that he is called Numissius; that he made attestation of this in accordance with the [Aelian]-Sentian and [Papian]-Poppaean laws which were passed concerning the begetting of children; and that he had not been able [to register (the birth)] because the hindrance of military service. [Dated at] the aforementioned Pselkis, at the winter camp of the aforementioned cohort, [on - - -] in the aforementioned consulship.
Rep_Editor - Cavenaile R; Rep_Ser - CPL; Rep_Year - 1959; Rep_Pg_No - 161 Sanders HA, Aegyptus 17, 233-240, 1937, Plate Sanders HA, PMich VII, 436, 1947, Pl. VI a, b
[Original record](http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?view=entry&subview=detail&cc=apis&entryid=X-2128&viewid=1).