Petition (P.Duk.inv. 698)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Petition, [3rd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Occupancy (Law) --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Petitions --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass ; 8 x 30 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 7.8 x 29.6 cm.
	11 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; written along
	the fibers on the verso.
	Small left margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 698 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 25.
	Papyrus petition from the Arsinoites (modern name:
	Fayyum), Egypt. Addresses king Ptolemy. The younger
	sister of Isas writes against Taarmous, who moved
	into their father's house in Oxyrhyncha, where he
	used to be a settler, after her father died. Dated
	on the back to Mecheir 16.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
Publication: John Bauschatz, "Three Duke Petitions," Zeitschrift für
	Papyrologie und Epigraphik 152 (2005) 187–197.

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