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Letter from Philoxenos to Zenon

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Accession: JE49055
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: mid 3rd c. B.C.
Date: mid 3rd c. B.C.
Date range: 275 BCE – 225 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 18.5 x 13']
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Description

Philoxenes, beginning his letter with a pleasant variation on the usual form of greeting, asks Zenon, as he had asked him once before, to give Exakon two jars full of pressed grapes and pips to enable him and his companions to make themselves some sour wine.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 1164 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1000 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;3;59527 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.3.59527 tier-1
HGV-Text 1164 tier-1

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