Detail View: Papyri Collection: Petition to the epistates ton phylakiton (head of police)

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)
Trismegistos Number: 
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