COLLECTION NAME:
Papyri Collection
Record
Reference number:
Greek P 141
Side:
recto
Obverse:
Small number 6, written in pencil
Image Number:
JRL17021073
Image Title:
Petition to the centurion
Citation reference:
P. Ryl. 2 141
Description:
A petition to a centurion, complaining of an assault and robbery following a dispute over compensation owed for illicit grazing
Creation site:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
Date created:
April-May 37 CE
Time period covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Place covered:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
People covered:
Gaius Trebius Iustus (centurion)
People covered:
Petermouthis, son of Herakleios (farmer, tax-collector)
People covered:
Antonia Drusi (landowner)
People covered:
Papontos, son of Orsenouphis (shepherd)
People covered:
Apion/Kapareis (shepherd)
Language:
Greek
Language code:
grc
Item height:
293 mm
Item width:
94 mm
Number of lines:
26
Technique used:
Handwriting
Support material:
Papyrus
Discovery site:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat) [?]
Bibliographic Reference:
D. Braund (1985), Augustus to Nero (Routledge): no. 758; B. Campbell (1993), The Roman Army (Routledge): p. 287; A.Z. Bryen (2013), Violence in Roman Egypt (Philadelphia): p. 218
Notes:
The Papryrus description has been supplied by William Mundy.
Bibliography:
Johnson, J De M; Martin, Victor; Hunt, Arthur S. Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Volume II Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, Nos. 62-456. Part 1 (1915): In: Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Manchester, UK: Sherratt and Hughes, Publishers to the Victoria University of Manchester; 1915, pp. 10-11
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Category:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number:
grc0141r
Image technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured:
2017-02-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Petition to the centurion
