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Private letter [348]

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Accession: P.Duk.inv. 177 R
Period: 348 CE
Date: 348 CE
Date range: 348 CE – 348 CE
Materials: ['1 item : papyrus, reconstructed from numerous partly joining fragments, mounted in glass, left part is broken off ; 25 x 78 cm']
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Private letter from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer, writes from Alexandria to his mother Senpetechensis alias Nike in Panopolis. He has been in Alexandria for some time on family business and expects a turn of fortune for the good. He is trying to get the high priest of Egypt to appoint his nephew Horion prophet (a priest) of the Panopolite Nome, a post formerly held by Ammon's half-brother Horion brother Sarapodoros take care of the collection of rent on the family's property in Arabia in the Panopolite Nome

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APIS-Text duke.apis.33853413 tier-1

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