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Repair of a waterwheel

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Description

P.Oxy. I 133-139 are concerned with the affairs of Fl. Apion, his heirs, or his son, Fl. Apion the younger. The family figures in a considerable proportion of the Oxyrhynchus papyri of this period. Acknowledgement given by Aurelius Ptollion, a cultivator, to the heirs of Fl. Apion, of the report of a axle for a waterwheel used in irrigation. A large number of similar documents, of which this one may be taken as a representative, are found among the papers relating to the house of Fl. Apion. Cf. P.Oxy. I 192-197.

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