Detail View: Papyri Collection: Petition to the epistates phylakiton

Reference number: 
Greek P 145
Side: 
verso
Obverse: 
Address to the archephodos of Taurinou kome
Image Number: 
JRL17021081
Image Title: 
Petition to the epistates phylakiton
Trismegistos Number: 
Citation reference: 
P. Ryl. Gr. 2 145
Description: 
A petition to the epistates phylakiton, complaining of the assault and robbery of one of the petitioner's employees; the accused party is a former employee.
Creation site: 
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
Date created: 
29 December 38 CE
Time period covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Place covered: 
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
Place covered: 
Egypt: Taurinou Kome
People covered: 
Athenodoros (epistates phylakiton)
People covered: 
Diktas (estate manager)
People covered: 
Theon, son of Theon (landowner)
People covered: 
Chairemon, son of Moschas (brewer)
People covered: 
Artemidoros (brewer)
Language: 
Greek
Language code: 
grc
Item height: 
232 mm
Item width: 
88 mm
Number of lines: 
23
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. 215
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: 
grc0145v
Image technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured: 
2017-02-07
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Papyri