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Letter from Pekysis to Zenon

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Accession: JE48764
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: 13th November, 250 B.C.
Date: 13th November, 250 B.C.
Date range: 250 BCE – 250 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 11 x 12.5 and 11.5 x 14.5']
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Description

A fragmentary and badly preserved letter about a stathmos, about which Zenon had written in the belief that it was occupied by Philon. Pekysis apparently replies that the peasants who used to live in it and who had gone away have now come back and reoccupied it.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 960 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.797 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;3;59316 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.3.59316 tier-1
HGV-Text 960 tier-1

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