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Fragment of a letter or memorandum

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Accession: JE51559
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 ; 20 x 20']
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Description

A request, probably to Zenon, to intervene on behalf of a woman from whom a debt was being exacted by one of his agents, in order that the price of certain articles should be returned to her and that she should be enabled to pay the dues which she owed to the Crown.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 1269 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1109 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;4;59638 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.4.59638 tier-1
HGV-Text 1269 tier-1

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