Main Record
Description
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 6554
- Processing Number
- 2873
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 16.8 X 10.6 cm
- Items
- 13
- Lines
- 21
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Negative in Copenhagen
- yes
- Conservation Status
- broken in fragments and badly mutilated; broken off at top and bottom
- Status
- published
- Library
- Cairo
Contents
- Date
- June 30[?], 290 A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown place, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 33-C86H-D
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Fragment of Document (Petition?)
- Content
- Fragment of a document of unknown type (petition?) in which was included a copy of a petition addressed to the prefect Titius Honoratus and of Honoratus' subscription, with the authentication for them given by six witnesses
- Subject Headings
- Administration (posting of the prefect's decisions)
- Authentication of a document
- Justice
- Topography (Alexandria)
- Witnesses
- Persons
- Diocletianus & Maximianus, Emperors;
- Aurelius Apollonios son of Sarapion . . .;
- Titius Honoratus, prefect of Egypt
- Geographica
- aguia Arsinoe Sozousa (Alexandria); Aigyptos
- Translation
- (Recto, lines 6-20)
- . . . from Aurelius Apollonius, son of Sarapion, . . . on Arsinoe the Savior Street . . . . The copy of the authentication which . . . has made on the petition which he presented to Titius Honoratus, the most distinguished prefect of Egypt, with the subscription given to me <read: him>, and also with the names of those who witnessed with their seals is as follows:
- In the sixth year of the Emperor <Caesar> Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus and in the fifth year of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, Germanici Maximi, Pii, Felices, Augusti, on the sixth of Epeiph; he who is named in the petition testified that he extracted and collated the following petition together with subscription from a file of petitions, fastened together, delivered to Titius Honoratus, the mostdistinguished prefect, posted in public in the Sebasteion(?). It is as follows:
- To Titius Honoratus, the most distinguished prefect of Egypt from . . .
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections ZPE 55 Hanson AE 1984 191-199 Pl. X SB XVI 13059 (and XVIII, p. 489) Hanson AE, ZPE 55, 191-199, 1984, Pl. X -- SB XVI 13059 (and XVIII, p. 489) -- BL IX, 297 (l. 7) BL IX, 297 (l. 7)
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 290
- Year End
- 290
Other Views
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