P.Oxy. XVI 2039 e la nascita della domus gloriosa degli Apioni

The article contains the reedition of one of the most important papyri concerning the famous Apiones family, an aristocratic domus attested in Oxyrhynchus and other egyptian regions as well as in Constantinople between the end of the 5th and the beginning of the 7th cent. During this period the family members reached the highest ranks of the public administration, from the management of the imperial estate to the ordinary consulate. The text, difficult to decipher because of many scribe’s corrections and therefore mostly misunderstood in the first edition, turned out to be essential for the reconstruction of the municipal system in the byzantine time and of the origin of the apionic house.