Petition (P.Duk.inv. 316)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Petition, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Author: Theambesis (Daughter of Onnophris from Oxyrhyncha, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Subject: Arridaios (Epistates from Oxyrhyncha, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Usufruct --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Shrines --Egypt --Oxyrhyncha (Extinct city) --332-30 B.C.
	Crocodiles --Egypt --Oxyrhyncha (Extinct city) --332-30 B.C.
	Police --Egypt --Oxyrhyncha (Extinct city) --332-30 B.C.
	Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Oxyrhyncha (Extinct city) --332-30 B.C.
	Petitions --Egypt --Oxyrhyncha (Extinct city) --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two joining fragments mounted in
	glass, lower end broken off ; 32 x 10 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 31.2 x 9.5 cm.
	49 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin of .5 cm.; small
	right margin.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 313-315
	and P.Duk.inv. 317-323.
	P.Duk.inv. 316 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF84 4.
	Papyrus petition from Thaambesis, daughter of Onnophris,
	to the epistates Arridaios, a police officer from
	Oxyrhyncha in the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum),
	Egypt. Thaambesis complains about the person who
	sold her the rights on five days of service at some
	shrines, including a crocodile burial site. Thaambesis
	already complained to the strategos, a high civil
	and army official in the region, about the problem.
	Thaambesis spelled her name as Theambesis on another
	papyrus, P.Duk.inv. 314.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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