TY - CHAP
T1 - Impairments as biometric modalities in Graeco-Roman papyri, 241 BCE-299 CE
AU - Karev, Ella
PY - 2024/12/13
Y1 - 2024/12/13
N2 - Legal documents written in Greek dating to Graeco-Roman Egypt included, alongside the names of the participants, a standardized description of their physical form (eikōn). The eikōn provided the age, height, skin-tone, face shape, and occasionally physical impairments for the purpose of identifying the individual in question—in effect, functioning as a biometric system. This paper assesses the distribution and nature of the impairments present in the eikones of the documentary Greek papyri from Egypt from 241 BCE to 299 CE with a focus on the role of impairments as biometric identifiers, little different from other identifiers such as the shape of the face.
AB - Legal documents written in Greek dating to Graeco-Roman Egypt included, alongside the names of the participants, a standardized description of their physical form (eikōn). The eikōn provided the age, height, skin-tone, face shape, and occasionally physical impairments for the purpose of identifying the individual in question—in effect, functioning as a biometric system. This paper assesses the distribution and nature of the impairments present in the eikones of the documentary Greek papyri from Egypt from 241 BCE to 299 CE with a focus on the role of impairments as biometric identifiers, little different from other identifiers such as the shape of the face.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85214187897&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003440369-20
DO - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003440369-20
M3 - فصل
SN - 9781032576480
T3 - Routledge Studies in Ancient Disabilities
SP - 257
EP - 277
BT - Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology
A2 - Morris, Alexandra F.
A2 - Vogel, Hannah
ER -