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Letter from Apollonios to Zenon

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Accession: JE48602
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: 27th December, 256 B.C.
Date: 27th December, 256 B.C.
Date range: 256 BCE – 256 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 12 x 29.5 (not including the fragment in the British Museum)']
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Description

Zenon is ordered to take from Memphis, from Apollonios' own garden and from the palace grounds, pear shoots and young plants, as many as possible, and also to get some sweet-apple trees from Hermaphilos, all to be planted in the orchards at Philadelphia.

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Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 804 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.638 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;2;59156 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.2.59156 tier-1
HGV-Text 804 tier-1

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