Petition (P.Duk.inv. 179 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Petition, [348]
Author: Aurelios Horion (Son of Horion from Panopolis, Egypt), fl. 348.
	Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348
Subject: Flavius Nestorius, fl. 345-352.
	Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Priests --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Governors --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Rescripts (Roman law) --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Petitions --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, reconstructed from numerous fragments,
	left part is broken off ; 27 x 56 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 26.7 x 56.0 cm.
	55 lines.
	Written in two columns along the fibers in Ammon's careful hand.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margins of 3 and 5 cm.;
	small right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 179 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 179 R.
	Petition from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt,
	written on papyrus. Aurelius Horion, son of Horion,
	writes to Flavius Nestorios, praefectus Aegypti or
	prefect of Egypt, through his uncle on his father's
	side, Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer.
	Horion claims his right to succeed his father in
	the position of prophet (a priest) of the Panopolite
	Nome against the scheming of the high priest. Makes
	reference to an imperial rescript of Diocletian in
	this matter. Apparently the fee for the priesthood
	has already been paid. Part of the archive of Ammon.
	Verso has a petition in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 179 V).
	P.Duk.inv. 179 R joins P.Köln inv. 4536, which has
	been on indefinite loan to Duke University since 1986.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
Publication: The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis 
	(P.Ammon), ed. W.H. Willis and K. Maresch. I 4. Opladen 1997.

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