P.Mich.inv. 5262
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5262
- Processing Number
- 2402
- Section/Side
- A; Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 12.5 X 31 cm
- Items
- 4
- Lines
- 38
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- broken off on the left side of the upper half, and (slightly) at the bottom; much damaged on the left side of the lower half; upper right part marred by a very large centrally-located hole
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IInd century A.D., not long after July 27, 179 A.D.
- Origin
- perhaps Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 28-156*-BII
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- Iulia Herais
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition to an Epistrategos
- Content
- Petition to Claudius Xenophon, epistrategos of the Heptanomia, with appended copy of a former petition to Titus Pactumeius Magnus, prefect of Egypt, addressed to them by Julia Herais, an Antinoite woman who complains against a tax collector, who has attempted to impose her to pay some land tax which she is not used to pay.
- Subject Headings
- Justice
- Land Ownership
- Citizenship--Egypt--Antinoöpolis (Extinct city)
- Tax Collection (& extortion)
- Violence
- Woman
- Persons
- [Tiberius(?)] Claudius Xenophon, epistrategos ton Hepta Nomon;
- Iulia Herais, Antinoitis;
- Gaius Iulius Priscus, son of Iulia Herais;
- Titus Pactumeius Magnus, prefect;
- Herakleides, son of Ammonios, misthotes katalochismon Arsinoeitou kai allon nomon
- Geographica
- Antinoitis; Aigyptos; Arsinoites; Hepta Nomoi
- Translation
- [To his excellency Tiberius(?)] Claudius Xenophon, epistrategos, [from Iulia] Herais, Antinoite, through [her son, Gaius Iulius] Priscus. Of the petition which I submitted to [Titus Pactumeius] Magnus, the [former] prefect, and [of the sacred] subscription [which I obtained from him, . . .] a copy is below. [I request, if] it seems good to your fortune, that you hear [my complaint against] Herakleides on account of his unjust [demands] for payment of a tax by me [. . .] not through the [. . .] but using the [power] accrueing to him to commit outrages [. . .] and to exact money illegally. It is as follows:
- [To Titus Pactumeius] Magnus, prefect of Egypt, [from Iulia] Herais, Antinoite, [and however I am styled.] I am submitting to you, my [lord] prefect, [a case] which requires your adjudication. [Since] Herakleides, son of Ammonios, farmer of the tax on catoecic registry for the Arsinoite and other nomes, possessing a brutal character, has intimidated me, wishing to demand payment unjustly of a tax which I do not owe on unproductive royal land, the tax never having been paid on land of such a kind, I have necessarily fled to you, the savior, and I request that you order that a letter be written to the epistrategos of the Seven Nomes to hear my complaint against him, so that nothing violent may happen to me at the instigation of Herakleides and I may receive this benefaction from you.
- Copy of the subscription (of prefect): Year 19, Mesore 3. Petition his excellency the epistrategos.
- The copy was made on Thoth 24 of year 20.
- (2nd hand) I, Iulia Herais, through my son [Iulius] Priscus, have submitted this petition. . . .
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections ZPE 42 Youtie LC 1981 81-88 Pl. III SB XVI 12678 (and XVIII, p. 484) Youtie LC, ZPE 42, 81-88, 1981, Pl. III -- SB XVI 12678 (and XVIII, p. 484) -- BL VIII, 385 (bibliography); BL IX, 289 (l. 13); BL XI, 220 (l. 36-37); BL VIII, 385 (bibliography); BL IX, 289 (l. 13); BL XI, 220 (l. 36-37);
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- N. Lewis, BASP 20 (1983) p. 55.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 199
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4490 x 8760
- File Size
- 5 MB
- Record
- 2402
- Link to this Item
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