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Letter giving power of attorney

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Accession: uninventoried
Find spot: Philadelphia, Egypt approx. site location
Period: A.D. 161
Date: A.D. 161
Date range: 161 CE – 161 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 30 x 16']
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Description

By this letter, which is really an arrangement for power of attorney (verso: epitropik�), the soldier Bucolus orders his farmer Casius to repay a debt of 44 drachmae to the veteran Aphrodisius. The text contains three different hands.

Connections

Found at Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 17562 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1984 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.phil;;16 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.phil.16 tier-1
HGV-Text 17562 tier-1

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