COLLECTION NAME:
Papyri Collection
Record
Reference number:
Greek P 127
Side:
recto
Obverse:
Small number 13, written in pencil (after discovery)
Image Number:
JRL15110590
Image Title:
Petition to the epistates ton phylakiton (head of police)
Subject:
Legal documents
Publication status:
Published: P.Ryl. II 127 in J. de M. Johnson, V. Martin, A.S. Hunt (eds.), Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester, Vol. II (Manchester, 1915), 123-4.
Citation reference:
P. Ryl. Gr. 2 127
Description:
A petition from Sentheus , resident of a hamlet near Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome, to the head of police of the nome complaining of the theft of various valuables from his house; a list of the valuables is appended (lines 24-35).
Creation site:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
Date created:
After 11 September 29 CE
Time period covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Place covered:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
Place covered:
Egypt: Dionysias (mod. Qasr Qarun)
Place covered:
Eygpt: Amminon Epoikion [?]
People covered:
Sarapion (epistates phylakiton)
People covered:
Semtheus, son of Anoubion
People covered:
Poplius/Publius Petronius (landowner)
People covered:
Gaius Petronius (landowner)
People covered:
Papontos (brewer)
People covered:
Phelikion
People covered:
Klados/Cladus (freedman)
Language:
Greek
Language code:
grc
Item height:
289 mm
Item width:
113 mm
Number of lines:
36
Technique used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support material:
Papyrus
Discovery site:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat) [?]
Bibliographic Reference:
F. Mitthoff (2002), 'Bemerkungen zu Papyri XV (Korr. Tyche)', Tyche 17 (2002): p. 252
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:
grc0127r
Image technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured:
2017-02-07
Date: issued:
2018-06
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Papyri
Petition to the epistates ton phylakiton (head of police)
