Catalog Record: duke.apis.31194727 [xml]
Title | Official letter Year 33 [148 or 137 B.C.] |
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Author | Phanesis, (Village scribe of Thmoinausiris) |
Summary | Papyrus letter written by Phanesis, the village scribe of Thmoinausiris and its dependent villages in the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Written to Pesouris, basilikos grammateus or royal scribe. Letter reports that one of the tenants of royal land, Horion, sent(?) the guards or police of the island of Rhodon to Heracleopolis Magna to meet Komanos, the epistates or chief of police. That same day Agathinos and Philammon and others with them sealed the house of Ababikis. Horion and one of the other tenants of royal land, Petesouchos, and their accomplices broke into the house(?) and stole(?) a pickled goose and two pillows. Dated to Epeiph, year 33 (148 or 137 B.C.). The parallel letter (P.Duk.inv. 599) is similarly phrased |
Citations | |
Inv. Id | P.Duk.inv. 605 R |
Support/Dimensions | 1 item : papyrus, six joining fragments mounted in glass ; 22 x 30 cm |
Language | In Greek |
Date | 148 BCE – 137 BCE |
Note (general) | Actual dimensions of item are 21.3 x 29.8 cm |
Note (general) | 13 lines |
Note (general) | Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margin of 1 cm.; left margin of 2.5 cm.; small right margin |
Note (general) | P.Duk.inv. 605 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 8 R |
Note (general) | Written across the fibers on the recto; line 1 is written in the upper margin in a different hand; written along the fibers on the verso inverse to the text on the recto and in a different hand |
Subjects | Pesouris -- (Royal scribe from the Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt), -- 2nd cent. B.C.; Tenant farmers -- Egypt -- Heracleopolite Nome -- 332-30 B.C.; Larceny -- Egypt -- 332-30 B.C.; Police -- Egypt -- Heracleopolite Nome -- 332-30 B.C.; Unlawful entry -- Egypt -- 332-30 B.C.; Scribes -- Egypt -- Heracleopolite Nome -- 332-30 B.C.; Documentary papyri Egypt Heracleopolite Nome 332-30 B.C; Correspondence Egypt Heracleopolite Nome 332-30 B.C; Papyri |
Images | thumbnail |
Images | 72dpi |
Images | 150dpi |
License | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
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