Draft of a petition to the katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 18 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Draft of a petition to the katholikos, [between 348 Dec. 9 and 348 Dec. 13]
Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348.
Subject: Phlaouios Sisinnios, Katholikos, fl. 348.
	Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Lawyers --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --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 and linen cloth, mounted in two frames
	of glass, incomplete.
Note: Actual dimensions of papyrus are 38.1 x 14.0 cm. Dimensions
	of the linen wrapper are 23.6 x 21.0 cm.
	36 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso inverse to the text on the recto.
	Lower margin of 6.5 cm.; small right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 18 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 18 R.
	Draft of two paragraphs of a petition from Panopolis
	(modern name: Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus.
	Petition is written by Ammon, the well-known scholastikos
	or lawyer, to Flavius Sisinnius katholikos, or high
	official in Alexandria. Drawn up between Dec. 9 and
	Dec. 13, 348 A.D. in Alexandria. Second frame of
	glass has the coarse linen cloth that was wrapped
	around P.Duk.inv. 18 when it was rolled up. Verso
	has another draft of the same petition in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 18 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
	Other drafts of this petition include P.Duk.inv. 18 V,
	P.Duk.inv. 19 V, P.Duk.inv. 187 R, P.Duk.inv. 188 R,
	P.Duk.inv. 189 R, P.Duk.inv. 189 V, P.Duk.inv. 217 R and
	P.Duk.inv. 1278.
Publication: The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis
	(P.Ammon), ed. W.H. Willis and K. Maresch. I 10. Opladen 1997.

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