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Letter from Pemnas to Zenon

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Accession: JE48779
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: 30th June, 248 B.C.
Date: 30th June, 248 B.C.
Date range: 248 BCE – 248 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 17.5 x 13 and 17.5 x 9.5']
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Description

Pemnas, a swineherd, is uneasy because he has not been allowed to see the accounts and suspects that Herakleides has entered to his debit a larger quantity than he really owes. He also asks Zenon to send for the young pigs due to him as rent.

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Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 974 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.812 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;3;59331 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.3.59331 tier-1
HGV-Text 974 tier-1

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