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Aesop's Fables (and Stories?)

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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 5771
Find spot: Unknown place, province of Egypt, Egypt
Period: IIIrd century A.D.
Date: IIIrd century A.D.
Date range: 200 CE – 299 CE
Materials: ['2 papyri ; 12.7 x 12.5 cm; 5 x 7.3 cm']
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Description

Fragments of fables of Aesop (who is named in col. 2, l. 15), including the fable of the eagle and the fox and the one of the farmer's quarrelsome sons(?)

Cross-references (2)

TM-Text 59040 primary
APIS-Text michigan.apis.2546 tier-1

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