Petition (P.Duk.inv. 190)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Petition, [between 286 and 305?]
Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348
Subject: Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Priests --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Fraud --Egypt --Akhmim --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,
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 7.9 x 55.6 cm. or smaller.
	65 lines.
	Written along the fibers in two wide columns, unplaced
	fragments may be from other document(s).
	Lower margin of 2-2.5 cm.; small right margin; upper
	margin of 2 cm.; and small left margin on the larger
	fragments.
	P.Duk.inv. 190 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 190.
	Petition from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt,
	written on papyrus. Petition is written to the prefect
	of Egypt(?) and concerns a disputed priesthood. The
	accused enjoys freedom of performing official duties,
	pretending to be a priest. He has also written petitions
	full of lies to the emperors Diocletian and Maximian.
	The accused is now over sixty. Part of the archive
	of Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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