P.Mich.inv. 2997

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 2997

Processing Number

1735

Section/Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso is PMich VI, 365

Connections

+ P.Mich.inv. 2929 r - Archive of Gaius Apolinarius Niger (& family)

Material

Pap

Size

15.5 X 30 cm when combined with 2929

Items

1

Lines

41

Mounted

No

Negative

No

Negative in Copenhagen

yes

Conservation Status

A large piece, ca. 11 X 9.5 cm, was lost from the lower right corner. – Broken at the bottom.

Palaeographic Description

see electronic version of PMich VI, 426

Status

published

Library

Cairo

Contents

Date

199/200[?] A.D.

Origin

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

24-5006E2-A

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Gemellus alias Horion

Type of Text/Title of Work

Petition to the Epistrategos

Content

Petition addressed to the epistrategos Arrius Victor by Gemellus alias Horion, requesting that his right to exemption from liturgical service as an elder of Karanis be confirmed, in agreement with his privileges as an Antinoite

Subject Headings

Civil Rights: Antinoite citizen

Health (Eyes)

Justice

Liturgy (compulsory public service: exemption)

Citizenship--Rome.

Rural Society

Violence

Citizenship--Egypt--Antinoöpolis (Extinct city)

Persons

Arrius Victor, epistrategos;

Gemellus alias Horion, Antinoite, son of Gaius Apollinarius Niger (= Gaius Gemellus Horigenes) (see P. Mich. VI, 422 introd.; Eos 49 [1957/1958] 155-164) - fictitious name: Horos son of Apolinarius;

the presbyteroi of Karanis;

Alfenus Apolinarius (Apollinarius), a censibus(?);

(unnamed) strategos of the Herakleidou meris

Geographica

Karanis; Herakleidou meris

Translation

To his excellency Arrius Victor, epistrategos, from Gemellus also called Horion, son of Gaius Apolinarius Niger, who is afflicted with weak vision, landholder at the village of Karanis in the division of Herakleides. Since your righteous judgment extends to all men, mightiest of overseers, I also, a victim of violence, beg to partake of your justice. The situation is as follows: the elders of the village of Karanis of the same division of Herakleides, men without the least scruple, with their habitual violence and arrogance < - - - > me whom they nominated as their colleague under the name “Horos, son of Apolinarius,” a fictitious name which I do not know. For this reason I do not know it, for neither did it set forth “disabled” or “infirm” or any other of my distinguishing marks, nor it is indeed permissible for me, since I am an Antinoite, to be styled otherwise, nor indeed to perform a liturgy again except in Antinooupolis alone. Furthermore, I was granted the right to wear the chlamys by the citizens at a meeting of the senate. Since not only am I one-eyed, but also I do not see with the eye that supposedly remains, because a cataract has appeared in its pupil and my sight is impaired, on this account I addressed a petition also to his excellency the a censibus(?), and I received the sacred rescript, of which a copy follows: Alfenus Apolinarius to the strategos of the division of Herakleides, greetings. . . . petition . . . Horion . . . .

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1735

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
TAPA 71	Pearl OM	1940	393-390	Pearl OM, TAPA 71, 393-390, 1940 -- BL VI, 82 on line 23 and about the archive	BL VI, 82 on line 23 and about the archive
PMich VI	Pearl OM-Youtie HC	1944	426	Pearl OM-Youtie HC, PMich VI, 426, 1944

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

199

Year End

200

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Record

1735

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1735/1 content_copy