Petition (P.Duk.inv. 209)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Petition, [365 or 366]
Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348
Subject: Complaints (Civil procedure) --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 18.1 x 19.6 cm. or smaller.
	35 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Lower margin of 2 cm; left margin of 1.5 cm.; right
	margin of 1 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 209 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 209.
	Draft of a petition from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim),
	Egypt, written on papyrus. Petition is by Ammon,
	the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer, to the praefectus
	Aegypti or prefect of Egypt. Concerns legal proceedings
	in a court, a proposed settlement and documents.
	Mentions Gennadios and describes Ammon's difficulties
	in meeting him. Mentions Antinoopolis and Oxyrhynchos.
	Mentions also Claudianus. Dated under the consulate
	or post-consulate of Valentinian and Valens (AD 365
	or 366). Papyrus belongs to the archive of Ammon.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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