Petition in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 489)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Petition, [between 137 and 142]
Subject: Avidius Heliodoros, fl. 137-142.
	Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Public records --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Petitions --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 13 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 12.5 x 7.0 cm.
	18 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Lower margin of 0.5 cm.; left margin of 1 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 489 was formerly P.Miss. 55.
	Papyrus petition from Egypt that is against the 
	nomination to a public office. Mentions Ptolemaios son of
	Ammonios. Refers to an order by the praefectus Aegypti
	Avidius Heliodoros and to the property register or its
	keepers.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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