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 ; 17 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 16.5 x 16.8 cm. 12 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto. Upper margin of 5 cm.; in this margin an additional line was written in Latin(?) characters. P.Duk.inv. 193 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 193 and 194. Petition from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Petition was 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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