Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1979

Publication Title

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik

Volume

34

Pages

139-147

Publisher Name

Dr. Rudolf Habelt Ltd.

Abstract

Purchased in the Fayûm in 1925, this papyrus contains the top part of a petition addressed by one Philoxenus possibly (far from certainly) to the governor of the province of Arcadia; see line 3 note. Surviving are (in part) the address (lines 1-4); a short proem (lines 5-8), virtually complete; and the beginning of the narrative of events leading up to the petition (lines 8-13). On palaeographic grounds I should be inclined to assign this piece to the sixth century. The address is written in a large, grand, up right hand, which decreases in thickness by the beginning and apparently in size during the course of line 3. Line 4 is written still smaller and with greater slant, evidently by a different hand.

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Author Posting. © Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn, 1979. This article is posted here by permission of Verlag Rudolf Habelt for personal use, not for redistribution. It was published in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 34 (1979). http://ifa.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/zpe.html

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