Petition APIS berkeley.apis.1002 (CU)1002 p.tebt.3.1.781 0206;3.1;781 p.tebt;3.1;781 5369 5369 P.Tebt.0781 Petition to the strategos from the overseer of the temple of Ammon in Moeris, relating the troubles that the temple has experienced. Top margin: 2.6 cm. 1247 Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Greek 4 papyri ; 18 x 18.2 cm., or smaller. OUT TO PHOTOLAB 8/12/05 PJR The writing is smudged on various spots. 19 lines, on recto along the fibers. Verso empty.

Regular cursive.

 ca. 164 B.C. Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Mummy cartonnage at Tebtunis 13

 APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent. English Greek Temples -- Moeris Moeris Petitions, Ptolemaic Period Recto Verso
To N.N., a chief of the body-guard and strategos, from N.N., overseer of the temple of Ammon at Moeris of the 45-arouras holders. The shrine in the said temple having been (destroyed) by the men of Antiochos in ... of the 2nd year, and the ground having later been regained (?), the temple was restored to its ancient state. Afterwards when the Egyptian rebels had attacked it and not only thrown down parts of the temple but split the stone-work of the shrine and carried off the door-fixtures and other doors to the number of more than 110 and also torn down some of the boarding, after some time ... I came forward and stopped up all the gates and breaches in order that the remaining colonnades might be held together. But now ... (Here the papyrus breaks off.)
P.Tebt., III.781 P.Tebt.:3.1:781

Original record.