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Letter from Zenon to Panakestor

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Accession: JE48577
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: 22nd March, 256 B.C.
Date: 22nd March, 256 B.C.
Date range: 256 BCE – 256 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 24.5 x 10']
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Description

Zenon informs Panakestor that he has sent him the poreion and a hundred drachmae, which was all the money that he could procure. He requests Panakestor to send to Krokodilopolis two loads of barley to make chidra and also to send him some cabbage from time to time.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 778 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.611 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;1;59129 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.1.59129 tier-1
HGV-Text 778 tier-1

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