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Details
Title
P.Tebt.0037, Official letter from Apollon to Petesouchos.
Published
Dec. 73/Jan. 72 B.C.
Full Collection Name
Advanced Papyrological Information System
Other Identifiers
P.Tebt.0037
Subject (Topic)
Payment; Land
Type
Image
Extent
Item/s: 1
26 lines, on recto along the fibers.
26 lines, on recto along the fibers.
Dimensions
29.5 x 8.6 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
Note
Apollon requests Petesouchos to take steps against a number of persons from whom a fine was to be exacted.
UCInventory: 1540
Ownership: Tebtunis
Holding Institution: Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Publication Side: Verso published.
Section Side: On verso, address.
Transcription: doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0206&query=document%3D%2333&layout=&loc=1.36
Translation: Apollon to Petesouchos, greeting. You must know that Kephalas and Petesouchos and their partners have applied to Demetrios concerning the works which they swear have been imposed upon their land, and that he gave them an extension of time (?). He has become much ashamed, and has ordered me to take soldiers and ravage them. Therefore, as I am occupied with urgent business, I have written to you so that you may undertake the matter; exact the money and keep of the copper one talent until I come down and receive it. If you neglect this I shall be obliged to come myself tomorrow. Good-bye. The 9th year, Choiak [.]. (Addressed on the verso) To Petesouchos.
Script Style: Regular cursive.
Mounted: glass
Material: Pap
Publication Status: published
Publisher: P.Tebt., I.37; White, J.L. Light from Ancient Letters, no. 59.
Revision History: Created 7/9/1998 av
Textual Date: Ninth year of (probably) Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, in the Egyptian month Choiak.
Primary Publication: P.Tebt.:1:37
UCInventory: 1540
Ownership: Tebtunis
Holding Institution: Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Publication Side: Verso published.
Section Side: On verso, address.
Transcription: doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0206&query=document%3D%2333&layout=&loc=1.36
Translation: Apollon to Petesouchos, greeting. You must know that Kephalas and Petesouchos and their partners have applied to Demetrios concerning the works which they swear have been imposed upon their land, and that he gave them an extension of time (?). He has become much ashamed, and has ordered me to take soldiers and ravage them. Therefore, as I am occupied with urgent business, I have written to you so that you may undertake the matter; exact the money and keep of the copper one talent until I come down and receive it. If you neglect this I shall be obliged to come myself tomorrow. Good-bye. The 9th year, Choiak [.]. (Addressed on the verso) To Petesouchos.
Script Style: Regular cursive.
Mounted: glass
Material: Pap
Publication Status: published
Publisher: P.Tebt., I.37; White, J.L. Light from Ancient Letters, no. 59.
Revision History: Created 7/9/1998 av
Textual Date: Ninth year of (probably) Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, in the Egyptian month Choiak.
Primary Publication: P.Tebt.:1:37
Provenance
Crocodile cartonnage at Tebtunis 24.7
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