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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.

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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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