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Title: Application for the purchase of a priestly office
Creator: Pakebkis, Son of Marsisouchos of Tebtunis
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: I column, 30 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Margins: top, 2.2 cm.; left, 2.5 cm.; bottom, 7.8 cm.
On verso in black ink: "T.8" twice.
On verso (across the fibers): traces of 16 lines of an unidentified document.
Pakebkis, son of Marsisuchus, expresses his desire to buy the office of Prophetes at the temple of Soknebtunis (Tebtunis, Egypt). The text is dated the 10th year of the Emperor Hadrian, 10th of the Egyptian month Tybi (Jan. 5, 147 A.D.)
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Extent: 1 item papyrus, complete 31.4 x 16.4 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00072
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Priests--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
Documentary papyri

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