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Letter Requesting Expedited Delivery of Nails for Shipbuilding

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Accession: Hermitage inv. 13336f
Find spot: kome Aphrodito, Egypt approx. site location
Period: 22 January, 710 A.D.
Date: 22 January, 710 A.D.
Date range: 710 CE – 710 CE
Materials: ['[10.5] x 11 cm (as given in P.Ross.Georg.)']
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Description

Letter (entagion) presumably from the governor of Egypt, Kurrah b. Sharik, to the pagarch, Basilius, asking for expedited delivery of nails to be used to build ships

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Found at kome Aphrodito

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 20494 primary
APIS-Text hermitage.apis.15 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.ross.georg;4;9 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.ross.georg.4.9 tier-1
HGV-Text 20494 tier-1

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