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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 6858
Find spot: unknown, Egypt
Period: VIth/VIIth century A.D.
Date: VIth/VIIth century A.D.
Date range: 500 CE – 699 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 29 x 15 cm.']
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Description

Letter from one Anuti to three ecclesiastics, reporting the succesful conclusion of a dispute regarding rent for a vineyard and a share in a house. The writer, in closing, asks for a blessing, written and wrapped around some object, unnamed, to be used with the water of their foot washings, for therapeutic purposes.;The rude scrawl, recto b, in a roughly contemporary hand, may be mathematical.

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APIS-Text michigan.apis.2961 tier-1

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