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Letter from Noumenios to Zenon
Description
Noumenios, who had been ordered by Apollonios to meet him in Memphis by a certain date, writes to ask when Apollonios intends to sail up from Mendes and where he has decided to celebrate the king's birthday and on what day in the Egyptian calendar the festival and sacrifice will take place.
Inscriptions (1)
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· Greek
Translations (1)
‘Numenius to Zenon, greeting. Owing to Apollonius having written to me to meet him at Memphis on the 2nd I have been obliged to travel round the nome without any method, in order that I might be ready to sail up immediately. Please, then, write to me how many more days he is going to remain in the Mendesian nome and when he will sail up to Memphis, and tell me also directly where he has decided to celebrate the king’s birthday and on what day in the Egyptian calendar the sacrifice will take place, in order that I may know. Farewell. Year 29, Mecheir 17. (Addressed) to Zenon. (Docketed) Numenius about meeting at Memphis. Year 28, Dystrus 20, in Memphis.’
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- TM-Text 2413 primary
- APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1014 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;4;59541 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.4.59541 tier-1
- HGV-Text 2413 tier-1
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