Draft of a petition (P.Duk.inv. 208)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Draft of a petition, [between 348 and 366]
Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348
Subject: Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Governors --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Offenses against property --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Squatters --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, three joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 9 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 8.1 x 8.4 cm.
	13 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Left margin of 2 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 208 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 208.
	Draft of a petition from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim),
	Egypt, written on papyrus. Written by Ammon, the
	well-known scholastikos, or lawyer, and his daughter.
	They write to the praefectus Aegypti or prefect of
	Egypt 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. Part of the archive of Ammon.
	Papyrus is one of three drafts of this petition. Other
	drafts are P.Duk.inv. 207 and P.Duk.inv. 1283.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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