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Private letter concerning an anach�r�sis 2nd century A.D.Philadelphia
Description
Alarmed by the news that his father is planning to leave his village (anach�rein), a son writes to a relative or a friend, asking him to intervene to deter the desertion, or at least to have him send a hundred drachmae, so that he himself could leave the Arsinoite nome and relocate to Alexandria, in order to avoid the abuse he would suffer because of his father's desertion. The choice of words and elegant phrasing, despite a few mistakes, give this text a certain literary tone.
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Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 25214.
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- Lettre privée relative à une ἀναχώρησις HGV-meta ArsinoitesI (?)
Connections
Found at
Philadelphia (Arsinoites)
Cross-references (5)
- TM-Text 25214 primary
- APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.2001 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.phil;;33 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.phil.33 tier-1
- HGV-Text 25214 tier-1
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