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Official Letter

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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 290
Find spot: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: ca. 188-190 A.D.
Date: ca. 188-190 A.D.
Date range: 188 CE – 190 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 12 x 32.5 cm']
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Description

Draft of a letter to the official of the municipal funds of Oxyrhynchus informing him of an order issued by the dioiketes that for every bull which should have been sent to sacrifice at an important contest (perhaps the 54th Megala Antinoeia of 184 A.D.) 400 drachmai be collected from the persons concerned and paid into the fiscus

Connections

Found at Oxyrhynchus

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 21369 primary
APIS-Text michigan.apis.1677 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.mich;11;623 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.mich.11.623 tier-1
HGV-Text 21369 tier-1

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