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Title
Copies of petitions
Creator
Phiënous (Female inhabitant of Egypt)
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
1 column, 19 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular currsive.
Written on 1st sheet after the protokollon.
Margins: top, 2 cm.; left (including protokollon), 15 cm.; bottom, 2.1 cm.
On verso: Account of payments, [between 275 and 300] (P.Tebt.II.404); and, written in reverse direction to this text, Private letter from Sarapammon : to Piperas : draft or copy, [between 275 and 300] (P.Tebt.II.424)
Two copies of petitions: the 1st (lines 1-16) is from Phiënous, and concerns her ownership of a farmstead at Alexandria; the second (lines 17-19) preserves only the 1st three lines of a petition of her husband, a Senator at Alexandria.
The papyrus was found in bundle with P.Tebt.II.285, P.Tebt.II.319, P.Tebt.II.326, P.Tebt.II.378,P.Tebt.II.406, and P.Tebt.II.588.
In Greek.
Type
image
Format
Documentary papyri
Petitions
Protokolla (Papyri)
Extent
1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 20.7 x 30.5 cm.
Identifier
(t_papyri)00088
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject
Women--Egypt--Alexandria
Land tenure--Egypt--Alexandria
Documentary papyri
Petitions
Protokolla (Papyri)

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