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Letter of a bailiff
Description
A letter from a steward or agent enclosing some accounts and giving other information, and asking for various supplies. In the left-hand margin there are some indications of a previous column, which perhaps contained the accounts referred to; and the verso is also inscribed with 22 lines, incomplete on both sides, of an account, but it is in a ruder hand than that of the recto, though it corresponds well enough with the description in ll. 3-5. A curious reference to a hippopotamus occurs in ll. 20 sqq. of the letter.
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (5)
- TM-Text 31651 primary
- APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1780 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;9;1220 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy.9.1220 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31651 tier-1
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