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Letter from Menas to Theodore

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Accession: uninventoried
Find spot: Oxyrhynchus, Egypt approx. site location
Period: 6th or 7th century
Date: 6th or 7th century
Date range: 500 CE – 699 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 14.2 x 37.6']
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Description

Cf. P.Oxy. XVI 1844. Menas appears here without title. The papyrus was a note sent with a present of fish, apparently on the occasion of the feast of Epiphany.

Connections

Found at Oxyrhynchus

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 37863 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1880 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.oxy;16;1857 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.oxy.16.1857 tier-1
HGV-Text 37863 tier-1

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