Petitions with Requests for Registration from Roman Egypt
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Abstract
Early versions of this paper were read at a meeting of the Classical Association of Canada in Québec in 2010 and at a seminar of the Collaborative Programme in Ancient History in Toronto in 2012; its results were also presented in summary form, as part of a more wide-ranging paper, at the Vigoni Conference in 2010.I thank the audiences on each of these occasions for their advice, as well as Rudolf Haensch and the anonymous referees for their helpful comments on the written version of the paper.1 BGU i 35, ll.10-15. 408. For the meanings of these terms, see below p. 417, with literature in nn.32-36.A handful of petitions contain requests formulated in some di erent way, but which could be suspected as having registration as an unstated goal; see below, p. 431, for references and discussion.3 For a registration petition which was used to intimidate an opponent -albeit one which, in the end, was apparently never submitted to the -see BGU i 321 (= MChr.114, duplicate: P. Berol.inv.7081 r o ), to be read with BGU i 322 (= MChr.124, duplicate: P. Louvre i 3 = SB i 6), A. Jördens, P. Louvre i, pp.15-16, and J. Whitehorne, 'Strategus, centurion, or neither.BGU i 321 and 322 (= M. Chrest.114 and 124) and their duplicates', BASP 40 ( 2003), pp.201-211.For a general discussion of the use of petitioning to force private settlements, see B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt [= Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents], Oxford 2011, pp.276-283.4 L. Mitteis, 'Zur Lehre von den Libellen und der Prozeßeinleitung nach den Papyri der früheren Kaiserzeit', Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Phil.-hist.Kl. 62 (1910), pp.61-126, at pp. 69-76; idem, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde ii 1, Leipzig -Berlin 1912, pp.33-34.5 See, for example: Jur.Pap.92, l. 18 n.; P. Ant. ii, p. 94; P. Gen. i 2 , p. 118; P. Oxy. l, p. 156; lviii, p. 4; lix, p. 95; lxi 4122, l. 16 n.In a few instances, editors have diverged somewhat
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.740 | 0.453 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".