Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1994
Publication Title
Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Volume
31
Pages
101-107
Publisher Name
American Society of Papyrologists
Abstract
The document under discussion has recently been called "one of the very few examples of pure Roman law found in Egypt." It is the will of Gaius Longinus Castor, resident of the Egyptian village of Karanis, veteran of the praetorian fleet of Misenum, who died in the year 194. The will itself provides a freeze frame, a still point in time in Longinus Castor's life; but it also allows for some imaginative extension in space and time. The results are a brief, outline biography of the testator with some speculation on his career and family, and on the special objectives he hoped to achieve for his family by means of his will.
Recommended Citation
Keenan, JG. "The will of Gaius Longinus Castor" in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 31, 1994.
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Copyright Statement
© 1994 James Keenan.
Comments
Author Posting. © James Keenan, 1994. This article is posted here by permission of the American Society of Papyrologists for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 31, 1994.