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Letter [256? or 255? B.C.]

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Accession: P.Duk.inv. 300
Period: 256 BCE – 255 BCE
Date: 256 BCE – 255 BCE
Date range: 256 BCE – 255 BCE
Materials: ['1 item : papyrus, six fragments of which four join, mounted in glass, left part is broken off']
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Description

Letter from Egypt, written on papyrus. Written by Papiskos to Nesiotes about the purchase of must from newly planted vines in the Cynopolite Nome. Papiskos mentions a price and discusses transportation by ship. The greeting reads "be of good health."

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APIS-Text duke.apis.32077957 tier-1

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