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  • 20 - Ancient Jurists and Latin Papyri

  • from Part IV - Juridical and Historical Insights
  • Edited by Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
  • Book:
    Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
    Published online:
    12 December 2025
    Print publication:
    08 January 2026, pp 349-361

  • Summary

    The study of papyrus evidence can help us to a better understanding not only of the thinking of the great jurists of the first three centuries CE, but also of those who, in the ‘dark’ centuries that followed, studied and transmitted ‘jurisprudential’ law up to Justinian and beyond. The author proposes some considerations based on two papyri. The first is P.Oxy. LXXXV 5495, which contains the Greek translation and paraphrase of some rubrics of Justinian’s Digesta. In particular, the author dwells on some lines of the so-called successio auctorum of the enchiridion of Sextus Pomponius. The other papyrus dates to the end of the third/beginning of the fourth century CE: it is P.Haun. de legatis et fideicommissis, in which the opinions of several jurists on intricate questions concerning the law of succession are recorded. The style in argumentation of the anonymous author suggests that this text may be considered an important testimony to the transition between the creative jurisprudence of the early centuries CE and the legal world of Late Antiquity.