Petition (P.Duk.inv. 338)

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Catalogue Record

Record #1394  Format: Manuscript
Title: Petition, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Philoxenos (Official from the Heracleopolite Nome,
	Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Panetbeuis (From the Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Assault and battery --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Cavalry --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Complaints (Criminal procedure) --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, seven joining fragments mounted in
	glass, right part broken off ; 25 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 24.2 x 14.4 cm.
	17 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto.
	Lower margin of 4 cm; left margin of 4.5 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-337
	and P.Duk.inv. 339-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 338 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 15.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which a cavalry soldier informs Philoxenos,
	an official, about an assault on him in a village
	in the Koites subdivision of the Herakleopolites.
	The Oxyrhynchites and the Kynopolites are also mentioned.
	Panetbeuis witnessed the assault.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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