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Letter of a Chief Priest

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Description

Letter from Ptolemaeus, archiereus, to his brother Heron, urging him to use all his efforts to become successful in an election to some office, perhaps that of strategos. The second part of the letter continues with an obscure reference to some allowance that would be made by the writer to his brother in connexion with an embl�ma.

Connections

Found at Kasr el Banât

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