Poplios Petrōn[ios] legei tois apo tōn epan[ō] [chronōn] geōrgois ...
Contributors: Petronius, Publius, fl. 24-21 B.C.
Language: grc
Subjects: Maker papyrus.; Manuscripts, Greek -- Egypt -- Specimens.; Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Specimens.; Egypt -- History -- Greco Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. -- Manuscripts -- Specimens.
Notes: Ms. (fragment).
Title from lines 2-5 (romanized).
At head of title: [hypo]keitai Phaō[phi].
Fragment of a contemporary copy of an otherwise unknown edict issued by P. Petronius as prefect of Egypt.
The fragment is under transparent acetate sheet within a folding cover inserted in a portfolio, and ultimately in a slipcase (24 cm.) with spine title: Papyrus. Also on spine: (Ca. 100(?) A.D.).
For an account of the fragment, see R.S. Bagnall, "Publius Petronius, Augustan prefect of Egypt," in: Papyrology / edited ... by Naphtali Lewis. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Cambridge University Press, 1985 (Yale classical studies ; 28).
Given to Lessing J. Rosenwald by Harold J. Maker; likely to be referred to as the Maker papyrus.