Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 599)

Location

Thmoinausiris, Egypt

Image

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Author

Phanesis (Village scribe of Thmoinausiris), 2nd cent. B.C.

Subject

Amenneus (From the Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C. Tenant farmers --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Police --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Larceny --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Unlawful entry --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Scribes --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Correspondence --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.

Material

1 item : papyrus mounted in glass, incomplete ; 12 x 16 cm.

Note: 12 lines. Written across the fibers on the recto. Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margin of 1.5 cm.; right margin of 1 cm. P.Duk.inv. 599 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 2. Papyrus copy of a letter written by Phanesis, the village scribe of Thmoinausiris and its dependent villages in the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Written to Amenneus and sent with a cover letter by two people. Letter reports that one of the tenants of royal land, Horion, sent(?) the guards or police of the island of Rhodon to Heracleopolis Magna to meet Komanos, the epistates or chief of police. That same day Agathinos and Philammon and others with them sealed the house of Ababikis. Horion and one of the other tenants of royal land, Petesouchos, and their accomplices broke into the house(?) and stole(?) a pickled goose and two pillows. The farewell of the cover letter reads, "be of good health." Dated to Pharmouthi 17, year 33 (9 May 137 B.C.), the same day as the cover letter. The parallel letter (P.Duk.inv. 605 R) is similarly phrased. In Greek. Publication: J. D. Sosin and J. Bauschatz, "Four Duke Papyri concerning Pesouris, Basilikos Grammateus," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141(2002) 177—190. Descriptive database available in repository.