P.Mich.inv. 6554

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Record Details

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
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

Technical Details

Record
2873
Link to this Item
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2873/1

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