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Business letter [not before 500]
Description
Business letter from Pathyris(?), Egypt, written on animal skin. Written by Enkot to Saltik, his business partner. Enkot sends twenty items on three camels along with a female slave Enkot requests the shipment of various goods in exchange(?). These goods include ten camel hides(?), five containers and five other vessels. Enkot instructs Saltik to buy a container of oil. If any money is left over, Saltik should buy some good clothes including a sackcloth(?) for half a solidus, a sheepskin for a solidus(?), a cloak for three solidi, etc. Saltik should give someone whose name begins with "Ap" a cloak. The marginal note instructs Saltik to give someone whose name begins with "At" two items. Probably part of the group of documents on animal
Cross-references (1)
- APIS-Text duke.apis.32077880 tier-1
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