Petition from Ammonios : draft or copyAmmonios, son of DionysiosAPISberkeley.apis.996(CU)996p.tebt.3.1.7740206;3.1;774p.tebt;3.1;77453655365P.Tebt.0774Ammonios petitions an unknown official about the unjust outcome of a lawsuit; to make his case, he lists his whole (impressive) career.Margins: top, 2.7 cm.; left, 3.5 cm.; bottom, 2 cm.1244Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., BerkeleyGreek1 papyrus ; 33 x 16.6 cm.28 lines, on recto along the fibers.Verso empty.
2 different hands, both regular cursives: 1 (lines 1-23 and line 28); 2 (lines 23-27).
ca. 187 B.C.Krokodilon polisHerakleidesTheon, Son of DionusiosIsidorosHeliodoros
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APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekActions and defensesKrokodilon polisArsinoites nomosPhiloterisThemistou merisPelousionApiasKaminoiPolemonos merisMemphisBoubastos.Petitions, Ptolemaic Period
I, Ammonios son of Dionusios, Crown cultivator and employee, inhabitant of Krokodilon polis in the Arsinoite nome, in the reign of the king's grandfather was checking-clerk of the grain-store for the neighborhood of Philoteris in the division of Themistos for the 25th year, and in the reign of his father I was associated with Herakleides as sitologos of the grain-stores at Pelousion and Apias in the division of Themistos likewise for the 14th year, and in the present reign I � the district of Kaminoi in the division of Polemon for the 3rd year and that of Memphis likewise for the 4th and 5th years, and for the � year the grain-store of Arsinoe's Dyke �, and I have been sitologos with Isidoros of the grain-store at Boubastos for the .. year, and I am posted (?) for 1500 artabas of wheat, and with Heliodoros of the same store for the 17th year, and I am posted (?) for 300 artabas of wheat, and for the 18th year I was sole sitologos of Boubastos by itself, and (I have to pay?) by sentence of the chrematistai in respect of the demands of Heliodoros 1 talent 700 drachmas of bronze. With regard to all these matter (I have been forced to retreat?) to the great temple of Sarapis in Memphis. Farewell.
P.Tebt., III.774 On lines 26-27, see BL v. 4, p. 98.P.Tebt.:3.1:774