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Letter from Hierokles to Zenon

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Accession: JE48596
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: 23rd August, 256 B.C.
Date: 23rd August, 256 B.C.
Date range: 256 BCE – 256 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 8.5 x 32.5']
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Description

Hierokles announces that Kallikon has sent a slave to Herakleopolis on some business and that Ptolemaios has asked the slave to pass by Philadelphia in order that Zenon may buy and send him two himatia, which are said to be cheaper up the river than in Alexandria.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 796 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.630 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;2;59148 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.2.59148 tier-1
HGV-Text 796 tier-1

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