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Business letter [Year 12 Choiak 21? [235 B.C. Feb. 8? or 210 B.C. Feb. 2?]] 235 BCE – 210 BCE
Description
Papyrus letter from Ptolemais Melissourgon in the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt about agricultural affairs. Explains that the author will follow the orders of the addressee to return to Oxyrhyncha and to start harvesting fruit trees. Verso has an account in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 320 V). Dated to Choiak 21(?) year 12 (February 8, 235 B.C. or February 2, 210 B.C.)
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 43029.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Account [not before 235 B.C.] APIS-papyrus image235 BCE – 200 BCE
- Fragment eines Briefes HGV-meta Arsinoites-210
Cross-references (2)
- TM-Text 43029 primary (inventory-match)
- APIS-Text duke.apis.29886042 tier-1
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