Title: Draft of a petition, [348?] Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348 Subject: Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Egypt --Officials and employees --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 fragments of which two join, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 11 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 10.6 x 23.1 cm. 14 lines. Written along the fibers on the verso, the marginal additions across the fibers. Written along the fibers on the recto in Ammon's informal hand and inverse to the main text on the verso. Upper margin of 2 cm.; lower margin of 1 cm.; left margin of 1.5 cm.; right margin of 3 cm. P.Duk.inv. 217 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 217 V. Draft of a petition from Panopolis (modern name Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Written by Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer. Ammon protests against abuse by an official, possibly Eugeneios, an imperial secretary. Papyrus belongs to the archive of Ammon. Recto has a draft of a petition to the katholikos in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 217 R). P.Duk.inv. 217 V joins P.Köln inv. 4547, which has been on indefinite loan to Duke University since 1986. In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository. Publication: The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis (P.Ammon), ed. W.H. Willis and K. Maresch. I 17. Opladen 1997
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