Detail View: Papyri Collection: Petition to the strategos

Reference number: 
Greek P 149
Side: 
verso
Image Number: 
JRL17021089
Image Title: 
Petition to the strategos
Citation reference: 
P. Ryl. Gr. 2 149
Description: 
A petition to the strategos, who is also designated as a priest of the emperor and an exegetes, complaining of illicit grazing
Creation site: 
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
Date created: 
September - October 39 CE
Time period covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Place covered: 
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
People covered: 
Gaius Iulius Asklas (priest, exegetes, strategos)
People covered: 
Petheus, son of Penaus (farmer)
People covered: 
Heras, son of Ephonychos (shepherds)
People covered: 
Orseus, son of Heras (shepherd)
People covered: 
Orsenouphis, son of Onnophris (shepherd)
People covered: 
Ophelion, son of Apollonios (shepherd)
Language: 
Greek
Language code: 
grc
Item height: 
288 mm
Item width: 
73 mm
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Support material: 
Papyrus
Discovery site: 
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat) [?]
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: 
grc0149v
Image technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured: 
2017-02-07
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Papyri