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Title: Petition of Horos
To Petesouchos
Creator: Horos, Son of Kronos, of Kerkeosiris
Petesouchos, alias Polemon (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: 30 lines written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Margins: top, 3 cm.; left, 2.5 cm.
On verso: Account of payments, [not before 110 B.C.]
Horos, farmer of crown lands at Kerkeosiris, Egypt, petitions Petesouchos, successor to Menches as village secretary of the same village, complaining about the theft of 40 sheep for which he was responsible, by inhabitants of a neighboring village. The text mentions the 8th year of Ptolemy IX Soter II (110/109 B.C.)
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Petitions
Extent: 1 item papyrus 31.5 x 13.7 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00038
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Larceny--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Sheep--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Documentary papyri
Petitions

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