Petition from three contractorsAmmoniosAPISoslo.apis.88(NoOU)88sb.12.110780239;12;11078sb;12;1107843924392P.Oslo inv. 1027Three contractors of the retail sale of papyrus rolls inform the officials in Tebtynis of the name of their new assistant in the papyrus trade and ask them to lend him their cooperation.Pub. status: Recto, Verso address?Greek1 papyrus ; 12.5 x 27.5 cm.Medium brown papyrua, top and left margin 3.5 cm, bottom margin (partly broken) 4.5 cm.The letter was folded five times vertically, and the strip of papyrus to the right of the last fold, containing the ends of the lines of writing, is lost. There is also considerable loss across the middle, around what was probably a horizontal fold, where little now remains of lines 8-11.Recto - 20;Verso - 1Source of description: Recto
Written in a hand which generally sprawls out, but is occasionally cramped.
ca 100 B.C.Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptAmmoniosHarmiysios
Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekTebtynis; Arsinoite nomePetitionLetterBusinessPapyrusSaleDocumentaryPapyrus
Ammonios and Ammonios and He..., contractors of the retail sale of papyrus rolls in the Arsinoite nome, to the epistates, the chief of police, and the other functionaries in the royal service at Tebtynis, greeting. We have [appointed?] Harmiysios, [our assistant in the contract?], to administer papyrus affairs for us from now on. Therefore, kindly lend him your zealous cooperation, and if he identifies any persons as violating the regulations or even using unstamped rolls, seize them together with their contraband supplies and despatch them to the appropriate officials, so that the latter may be able to discharge their royal service without hindrance. Farewell. Year 1[5?, month, day].
Lewis N, Chronique d'Egypt 48, 134-139, 1973 -- SB XII 11078SB:12:11078