Apollonios strategos
| Name: | Apollonios strategos |
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| Place: | U15 - Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein) (?) |
| Century: | AD02 |
| Begin: | AD 58 |
| End: | AD 150 |
| Language/script: | Greek |
| Material: | papyrus |
| Texts: | 230 |
| ↳ certain: | 227 |
| ↳ uncertain: | 3 |
| ↳ erroneous: | |
| Type: | private and official archive |
| Protagonist: | Apollonios is strategos of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias and has a regular correspondence with this hometown Hermopolis, where live his wife Aline, his daughter Heraidous and his mother Eudaimonis. He was active at the time when Hadrianus succeeded Traianus as emperor and when a revolt of the Jews took place in Egypt. |
| Description: | private letters; official reports; petitions |
| Studies: | Roos, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 37 (1922), p. 1-40 & 129-146; Clarysse in Pestman, Familiearchieven uit het land van Pharao, 1989, p. 85-106; Kortus, Briefe des Apollonios-Archives aus der Sammlung Papyri Gissenses (Berichte und Arbeiten aus der Universitätsbibliothek Giessen 49), 1999. Recent additions by Litinas, A letter from the strategos Apollonios' archive? P. Lond. inv. 1228, in Pap. Congr. XXII (Firenze 1998), 2001, p. 805-812 and Messeri, Suggestioni da PSI IV 308, ZPE 135 (2001), p. 165-168; Bagnall / Cribiore, Women’s letters from ancient Egypt, 2006, p. 139-163 |
| Lists: | Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 253 no. 34; Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz, 1973, p. 68 no. 2.4 |
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Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library Barcelona, Palau-Ribes Bonn, Seminar für alte Geschichte Bremen, Private collection G. Bergfeld Bremen, Staatsbibliothek Erlangen, Universität Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Universität London, British Library Manchester, John Rylands Library New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale |
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