Name: Asclepiades, 2nd half of 3rd century BC / Place: Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis/Arsinoe(Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Name Asclepiades, 2nd half of 3rd century BC Place Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis/Arsinoe(Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt Level [40] File

Reference (shelfmark):: Papyrus 505
Title:: Petition to a Strategus (P.Petr. II 2(1), P.Petr. III 28a, Chrest.Wilck. 337, P.Lond. III 505 descr., TM 7406)
Scope & Content:: Petition to Diophanes, strategus of the Arsinoite nome, from Onetor, Asclepiades and Musaeus against the veteran Lysander, accompanying a petition to the king and concerning problems with the lease of a plot of land in Euhemeria.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 222-221 BC
Extent:: Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off to the left, damaged by holes and with minor surface damage; written on one side along the fibres. A scrap with writing is glued onto the back. The front bears 22 lines, lacking the beginnings, for a loss of 3-5 letters; the text breaks off at the bottom. Upper and right margins survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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