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Title: Petition of Petesouchos
To the King and Queen of Egypt
Creator: Petesouchos, Son of Petos, of Oxyrhyncha
Ptolemy VI Philometor, King of Egypt, d. 145 B.C
Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, King of Egypt, d. 116 B.C
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Tebtunis Papyri
Rights Information: FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited: Direct requests for copies or permission to publish to the Rare Books Curator, The Bancroft Library.
Description: Two copies of same text, in different hands.
30.7 x 11.7 cm. 27 lines, written on recto along the fibers. Regular cursive. Margins: top, 3.4 cm.; left, 2.3 cm.; bottom, 3.6 cm. Ends of lines are missing, but text can partially be made good from the copy P.Tebt. 771 (B). On verso: plaster from mummification.
31.7 x 10.7 cm. 24 lines, written on recto along the fibers. Regular semi-uncial. Margins: top, 4.6 cm.; left, 3.3 cm.; bottom, 3.8 cm. On verso: plaster from mummification (colored painting?)
Two copies of a petition by Petesouchos, of Oxyrhyncha, Egypt, to the King and Queen of Egypt, complaining that he was being disturbed in the possession of his house at Oxyrhyncha by Stratonike, daughter of Ptolemaios, of Krokodilon Polis.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Figure drawings
Petitions
Extent: 2 items papyrus, 2 fragments, incomplete various sizes.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00098
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Stratonike, Daughter of Ptolemaios
Documentary papyri
Figure drawings
Petitions

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