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Title: Petition from Apollodoros to Menches
Creator: Apollodoros (Oil-seller of Kerkeosiris)
Menches, komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris
Menches, Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris
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, 36 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Margins: top, 2 cm.; left, 1.4 cm.
Number "39" written in red in top margin.
Verso empty.
The oil-seller Apollodoros complains to Menches, village scribe, about two assaults by oil smugglers; the text mentions the 4th year (of Ptolemy IX Soter II, 114/113 B.C.) and the 4th of the Egyptian month Hathyr (Nov. 23, 114 B.C.)
Petitions from the same oil-seller are: P.Tebt.38, P.Tebt.157, and P.Tebt.1094.
Forms part of: Menches archive.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Petitions
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 24 x 10.8 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00056
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Petroleum--Egypt
Smuggling--Egypt
Assault and battery--Egypt
Documentary papyri
Petitions

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