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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 1591
Find spot: Unknown, Egypt
Period: Later Ist - IInd century A.D.
Date: Later Ist - IInd century A.D.
Date range: 100 CE – 199 CE
Materials: ['2 papyri ; 8.5 x 12.3 cm']
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Description

Fragment of a geography of the Aeolian Islands (col. I) and of Sicily (col. II), mentioning also Kyme in Campania (Italy); it combined mythological geography (in part. the geography of the Odyssey) and an interest for natural (volcanic) phenomena, and gave distance figures betweenplaces

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TM-Text 63273 primary
APIS-Text michigan.apis.1483 tier-1

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