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Title
Petition to Menches
Creator
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, 37 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Small regular cursive.
Margins: left, 1 cm.; bottom, 4.4 cm.
Verso: empty.
Petition from 2 or more farmers of crown lands at Kerkeosiris to Menches, village scribe of the same village, complaining of a raid on their home by Pyrrhicus, son of Dionysius, and other marauders, and reporting that items were stolen on this occasion.
The same raid is the subject of P.Tebt.45, P.Tebt.46, P.Tebt.1095, and P.Tebt.1096.
Forms part of: Menches archive.
In Greek.
Type
image
Format
Documentary papyri
Petitions
Extent
1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 26.6 x 8.2 cm. cm.
Identifier
(t_papyri)00058
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject
Pyrrhichus, of Kerkeosiris
Burglary--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Crown lands--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Documentary papyri
Petitions

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