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Letter from Zenon to Sostratos

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Accession: JE48675
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: 8th March, 253 B.C.
Date: 8th March, 253 B.C.
Date range: 253 BCE – 253 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 8.5 x 30']
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Description

Zenon asks his friend and partner Sostratos to send him one of the masons to point out the brick-makers and the other masons, but to warn this man not to disclose himself lest they should all decamp.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 875 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.712 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;2;59230 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.2.59230 tier-1
HGV-Text 875 tier-1

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