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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 1297
Find spot: unknown, Egypt
Period: Vth/VIth century A.D. (?) (TC)
Date: Vth/VIth century A.D. (?) (TC)
Date range: 400 CE – 599 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 6.5 x 5.5 cm.']
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Description

The text is the beginning of a private letter from a certain Mena to his father. We only learn from the remaining part of the letter that the writer acknowledges that he has caused his father certain inconveniences and that the brother have been forced to work in the field. It is unclear whether these are relatives of the writer or whether the letter belongs in the context of a monastery.

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APIS-Text michigan.apis.1376 tier-1

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