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Title: Petition from Tapentos
To Polemon, Epistates
Creator: Tapentos, of Kerkeosiris
Polemon (Epistates 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, 17 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular, small cursive.
Margins: top, 2.8 cm.; left, 1.5 cm.
Number "52" written in red ink in left top corner.
Verso empty.
A woman named Tapentos complains to Polemon, Epistates of Kerkeosiris, of the theft of documents from her home.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Petitions
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 13.2 x 7.6 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00063
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Larceny--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Women--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Documentary papyri
Petitions

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