P.Mich.inv. 5524 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5524
- Processing Number
- 2486
- Section/Side
- a; Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 10 x 29.8 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 22
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- complete, but fragile and broken, with the writing much faded
- Palaeographic Description
- see electronic version of PMich IX, 523
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 66 A.D.
- Origin
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 28-CS125-G
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Ammonios son of Eirenaios
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition to a Strategos
- Content
- Petition to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Androtimos by an Ammonios, cultivator of state lands from Karanis, requesting that an order be sent to the hegoumenos of Karanis directing him to assist in the search for a calf stolen from Ammonios near Kerkesoucha
- Subject Headings
- Agriculture--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Feeds--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Justice, Administration of--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Police--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Theft--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Kerkesoucha Orous (Extinct city)
- Cattle--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Tiberius Claudius Androtimos, strategos of the Herakleidou meris;
- Ammonios son of Eirenaios, demosios georgos;
- Nero, Emperor;
- Harpaesis son of Herakles (see Geographica);
- (unnamed) hegoumenos of Karanis
- Geographica
- Herakleidou meris of the Arsinoite; Karanis; Kerkesoucha; kleros of Harpaesis son of Herakles
- Translation
- To Tiberius Claudius Androtimos, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, from Ammonios, son of Eirenaios, one of the state cultivators from Karanis. On the night before the 4th of Mecheir of the present 12th year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, certain persons made an attack on the cattle that I have grazing in the plain of Kerkesoucha, in the allotment of Harpaesis, son of Herakles, and drove off my red calf that is ready for butchering. Therefore I ask that a written order be sent to the hegoumenos of Karanis to make an investigation with me. Farewell.
- (2nd hand) I, Ammonios, son of Eirenaios, have presented the aforesaid petition.
- (1st hand) The 12th year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator. Mecheir(?).
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich IX Husselman EM 1971 523 Husselman EM, PMich IX, 523, 1971
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Tomasz Derda, ARSINOITHS NOMOS. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Warsaw 2006, p. 100
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 66
- Year End
- 66
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 1222 x 2805
- File Size
- 456 KB
- Record
- 2486
- Link to this Item
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