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Draft of a petition to the katholikos [348]
Description
Draft of a petition from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Petition is written by Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer, to Flavius Sisinnius katholikos, a high official in Alexandria. Petition was drawn up between December 9 and 13, 348 in Alexandria. Ammon claims three female Phoenician slaves left by his brother Harpokration rhetor and panegyrist, in Alexandria with his landlord Konon. According to Aurelius Aetios, Ammon's brother died abroad on a trip through Greece, Rome and Constantinople. Afterwards Eugeneios, an imperial secretary, claimed the three slaves as having no other legal owner and secured the imperial permission to do so at some expense (Serenianus son of Palladios told
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- APIS-Text duke.apis.33853247 tier-1
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