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Detail View: Papyri Collection: Petition to the epistates phylakiton

Reference number: 
Greek P 144
Side: 
recto
Obverse: 
Small number 17, written in pencil
Image Number: 
JRL17021079
Image Title: 
Petition to the epistates phylakiton
Trismegistos Number: 
Citation reference: 
P. Ryl. Gr. 2 144
Description: 
A petition to the epistates phylakiton, submitted by a slave, complaining of an assault and robbery following a dispute over a debt.
Creation site: 
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
Date created: 
May - June 38 CE
Time period covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Place covered: 
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
People covered: 
Athenodoros (epistates phylakiton)
People covered: 
Ision (slave)
People covered: 
Chairemon (exegetes)
People covered: 
Onnophris, son of Silbon
Language: 
Greek
Language code: 
grc
Item height: 
361 mm
Item width: 
90 mm
Number of lines: 
26
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Support material: 
Papyrus
Discovery site: 
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat) [?]
Bibliographic Reference: 
A.Z. Bryen (2013), Violence in Roman Egypt (Philadelphia): p. 219
Notes: 
The Papryrus description has been supplied by William Mundy.
Bibliography: 
Johnson, J De M; Martin, Victor; Hunt, Arthur S. Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Volume II Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, Nos. 62-456. Part 1 (1915): In: Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Manchester, UK: Sherratt and Hughes, Publishers to the Victoria University of Manchester; 1915, pp. 10-11
Current repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Category: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Fragments
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number: 
grc0144r
Image technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured: 
2017-02-07
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Papyri