Petition (P.Duk.inv. 191)

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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 item are 12.9 x 13.4 cm. or smaller.
	12 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 191 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 191.
	Petition from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt,
	written on papyrus. Petition written to the prefect
	of Egypt(?) about 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. Papyrus belongs to
	the archive of Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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