Draft of a petition (P.Duk.inv. 207)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Draft of a petition, [not before 348]
Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348
Subject: Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Squatters --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Offenses against property --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Governors --Egypt --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 12.0 x 20.5 cm. or smaller.
	42 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto in Ammon's hand.
	Lower margin of 2.5 cm; small right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 207 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 207.
	Draft of a petition from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim),
	Egypt, written on papyrus. Petition is written by
	Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer, and
	his daughter to the praefectus Aegypti or prefect
	of Egypt. Petition is against a man who has repeatedly
	encroached on the land of Ammon himself and of the
	orphaned child(ren) of his daughter. His daughter's
	husband Helladios has died, and she now manages the
	property through a tenant. The accused planted a
	vineyard on part of the property while Ammon was
	in Panopolis and could not go out in the fields because
	of his illness and his age. Ammon stresses the fact
	that other land of his is not productive either because
	it cannot be watered. Papyrus belongs to the archive of Ammon.
	Papyrus is one of three drafts of this petition. Other
	drafts are P.Duk.inv. 208 and P.Duk.inv. 1283.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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