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Letter from Demokrates to Zenon

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Accession: JE48802
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: 6th March, 243 B.C.
Date: 6th March, 243 B.C.
Date range: 243 BCE – 243 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 15 x 8.5']
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Description

Demokrates complains that his tent-poles are worm-eaten. As he had noticed some good willow poles on the property of Demeas and in the possession Helenos, he asks Zenon to get Helenos to sell him two of four cubits for uprights and two of three and a hal

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Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 996 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.834 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;3;59353 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.3.59353 tier-1
HGV-Text 996 tier-1

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