P.Mich.inv. 6127

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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 6127
Processing Number
2641
Section/Side
Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto; Verso is blank
Material
Pap
Size
12 x 23 cm
Items
1
Lines
25
Mounted
No
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
damaged along one of the folds
Palaeographic Description
1st hand: carefully written in semi-uncial characters; 2nd hand:
Status
published
Library
Cairo

Contents

Date
April 18, 193 A.D.
Origin
Soknopaiou Nesos, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Provenance
Soknopaiou Nesos, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Acquisition
31-I112D-P (21)
Language
Greek
Genre
Documentary
Author
Melas son of Horion, hiereus
Type of Text/Title of Work
Petition to a Centurion
Content
Petition to the local centurion by a priest of Sobek (Soknopaios), who complains that a cousin named Phanesis has violently prevented him from using a plot of ground which they and another cousin, recently deceased, had inherited from their maternal grandfather and had employed for storing hay.
Persons
Ammonios Paternos, hekatontarches (see also B.G.U. II, 454; 515);
Melas son of Horion, hiereus;
Phanesis, cousin of Melas;
Harpagathes, deceased cousin of Melas;
Pertinax, Emperor
Geographica
Soknopaiou Nesos
Translation
To Ammonios Paternos, centurion, from Melas, son of Horion, of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, a priest of the god who is in the village. There belongs to me and also to my cousins Phanesis and Harpagathes held in common and equally in the same village as an inheritance from our maternal grandfather a vacant plot surrounded with a wall where we stack our annual supply of hay. Now the one (cousin) Harpagathes died recently and although his share was inherited equally by both of us, yesterday, which was the 23rd, while I was stacking my hay in the place, Phanesis violently and shamelessly assaulted me and appropriated my hay not alloving me to stack it in our share (but) attempting to exclude me therefrom and to claim for himself alone what belongs to me; not only this but he also offered me the most brutal illtreatment. Wherefore I beseech you to command him to be summoned so that I may be able to obtain the just judgment which comes from you. Farewell.
(2nd hand) The first year of Publius Helvius Pertinax Augustus, Pharmouthi 23.

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
PMich III Boak AER 1936 175 Boak AER, PMich III, 175, 1936 -- BL III, 109-110 (lines 15,16) BL III, 109-110 (lines 15,16)
Doc.Eser.Rom. Daris S 1964 77 Daris S, Doc.Eser.Rom., 77, 1964

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography
K.Fr.W. Schmidt, Phil.Woch. 58 (1938) p. 346.

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Scanner Initials
CT

Cataloging

Cataloger
PH
Year Begin
193
Year End
193

Technical Details

Record
2641
Link to this Item
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