Catalog Record: duke.apis.31194729 [xml]
Title | Official letter Year 33 Pharmouthi 17 [148 B.C. May 13 or 137 B.C. May 10] |
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Author | Phanesis, (Village scribe of Thmoinausiris) |
Summary | Papyrus copy of a letter written by Phanesis, the village scribe of Thmoinausiris and its dependent villages in the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Written to Amenneus and sent with a cover letter by two people. 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. The farewell of the cover letter reads, "be of good health." Dated to Pharmouthi 17 |
Citations | |
Inv. Id | P.Duk.inv. 599 |
Support/Dimensions | 1 item : papyrus mounted in glass, incomplete ; 12 x 16 cm |
Language | In Greek |
Date | 148 BCE – 137 BCE |
Note (general) | 12 lines |
Note (general) | Written across the fibers on the recto |
Note (general) | Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margin of 1.5 cm.; right margin of 1 cm |
Note (general) | P.Duk.inv. 599 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 2 |
Subjects | Amenneus -- (From the Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt), -- 2nd cent. B.C.; Tenant farmers -- Egypt -- Heracleopolite Nome -- 332-30 B.C.; Police -- Egypt -- Heracleopolite Nome -- 332-30 B.C.; Larceny -- Egypt -- 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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