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Contract with castanet dancers

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Accession: P.Corn. Inv. II 26
Find spot: Philadelphia, village of the the Herakleidou meris of the Arsinoite nome, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: 14 April, A.D. 206
Date: 14 April, A.D. 206
Date range: 206 CE – 206 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 20.2 x 8.8 cm']
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Description

A cheirographon contact (letter-contract type). Artemisia hires Isidora and two other castanet dancers to perform at a festival at her house at Philadelpheia. She will be paid 36 drachmai per day, plus 4 artabai of barley and 24 pairs of bread loaves.

The same text in other collections

Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 10609. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Contract with Castanet Dancers HGV-meta Philadelphia (Arsinoites)206
p.corn.9 DDbDP-text textPhiladelphia (Arsinoites)206

Connections

Found at Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 10609 primary
APIS-Text michigan.apis.1248 tier-1
DDbDP-Text sb;3;6945 tier-1
DDbDP-Text sb.3.6945 tier-1
HGV-Text 10609 tier-1

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