Sentence of the Praefect Valerius Eudaemon

Date

• 143

Summary

• Date: November 2, 143 CE.
• Place of origin: Unknown.
• Condition of recto: A light-brown papyrus, regularly cut off on all sides. At the top there is a free margin of 1 cm.; at the bottom one of 3 cm. and at the left-hand side one of 1 cm., and at the right-hand side one of 2.5cm. There is some damage at the six vertical folds.
• Condition of verso: The verso is empty.
• Hands recto: The text, written with deep black ink, runs along the fibres.
• Hands verso: The letters are uncommonly large.
• Notes: Text originally published by W. L. Westermann, The Prefect Valerius Eusaemon and the Indigent Liturgist, JEA 40, 1954, p. 107 ff. = SB VI 9315
• Description, notes, transcription, and translation written by P. J. Sijpesteijn.