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Petition against defaulting debtor [2nd cent. B.C.] 199 BCE – 100 BCE
Description
Papyrus petition from Empedion in the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt to Hegesandros the epistates, a police officer. Empedion accuses Imouthes of failing to repay a loan. When burglars assaulted and murdered Empedion's father, one of the burglars, Seuthes, carried off an IOU written by Imouthes for 200 drachmas, which Imouthes now refuses to repay
The same text in other collections
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TM 58468.
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- Eingabe an einen Epistates wegen Verwertung eines gestohlenen Vertrags HGV-meta Herakleopolites ?, ÄgyptenEnde III - 1. Hälfte II v.Chr. (?)
Cross-references (4)
- TM-Text 58468 primary
- APIS-Text duke.apis.29972363 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text sb;30;17693 tier-1
- HGV-Text 58468 tier-1
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