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private letter

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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 1655
Find spot: unknown, Egypt
Period: IIIrd century A.D.
Date: IIIrd century A.D.
Date range: 200 CE – 299 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 10.5 x 9.5 cm.']
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Description

This private letter is entirely concerned with a matter of business. The writer's attention is concentrated on the need of money to defray expenses and of papyrus for producing accounts, or a register of other official papers. The drift of the text suggests that he is a partner in a small firm of scribes, perhaps a family enterprise, specializing in such work.

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 30291 primary
APIS-Text michigan.apis.1503 tier-1
DDbDP-Text sb;16;12591 tier-1
DDbDP-Text sb.16.12591 tier-1
HGV-Text 30291 tier-1

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