Catalog Record: duke.apis.33853413 [xml]
Title | Private letter [348] |
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Author | Ammon, Scholasticus, of Panopolis |
Summary | Private letter from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer, writes from Alexandria to his mother Senpetechensis alias Nike in Panopolis. He has been in Alexandria for some time on family business and expects a turn of fortune for the good. He is trying to get the high priest of Egypt to appoint his nephew Horion prophet (a priest) of the Panopolite Nome, a post formerly held by Ammon's half-brother Horion brother Sarapodoros take care of the collection of rent on the family's property in Arabia in the Panopolite Nome |
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Inv. Id | P.Duk.inv. 177 R |
Support/Dimensions | 1 item : papyrus, reconstructed from numerous partly joining fragments, mounted in glass, left part is broken off ; 25 x 78 cm |
Language | In Greek |
Date | 348 CE |
Note (general) | Actual dimensions of item are 24.5 x 77.5 cm |
Note (general) | 178 lines |
Note (general) | Written along the fibers on the recto in Ammon's careful hand in six columns; written across the fibers on the verso in Ammon's informal hand |
Note (general) | Upper margin of 1 cm.; lower margin of 1 cm.; right margin of 1 cm |
Note (general) | P.Duk.inv. 177 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 177 R |
Note (general) | P.Duk.inv. 177 R joins P.Koln.inv. 4534 and P.Koln.inv. 4538, which have been on indefinite loan to Duke University since 1986 |
Subjects | Letter writing, Greek -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Priests -- Egypt -- Akhmim -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Slaves -- Egypt -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Slaveholders -- Egypt -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Rescripts (Roman law) -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Documentary papyri Egypt Akhmim 30 B.C.-640 A.D; Personal correspondence Egypt Akhmim 30 B.C.-640 A.D; Papyri |
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License | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
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