Detail View: Papyri Collection: Petition to the centurion
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Reference number:
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Greek P 141
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Side:
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recto
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Obverse:
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Small number 6, written in pencil
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Image Number:
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JRL17021073
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Image Title:
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Petition to the centurion
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Trismegistos Number:
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Citation reference:
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P. Ryl. 2 141
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Description:
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A petition to a centurion, complaining of an assault and robbery following a dispute over compensation owed for illicit grazing
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Creation site:
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Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
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Date created:
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April-May 37 CE
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Time period covered:
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1 BCE - 500 CE
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
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People covered:
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Gaius Trebius Iustus (centurion)
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People covered:
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Petermouthis, son of Herakleios (farmer, tax-collector)
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People covered:
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Antonia Drusi (landowner)
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People covered:
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Papontos, son of Orsenouphis (shepherd)
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People covered:
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Apion/Kapareis (shepherd)
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Language:
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Greek
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Language code:
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grc
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Item height:
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293 mm
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Item width:
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94 mm
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Number of lines:
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26
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Support material:
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Papyrus
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat) [?]
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Bibliographic Reference:
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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
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Notes:
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The Papryrus description has been supplied by William Mundy.
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Bibliography:
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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
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Category:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Image sequence number:
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grc0141r
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date image captured:
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2017-02-07
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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