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Letter from Asklepiades to Zenon

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Accession: JE48933
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: mid 3rd c. B.C.
Date: mid 3rd c. B.C.
Date range: 275 BCE – 225 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 16 x 15']
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Description

Asklepiades writes that an agent has come from Ktesikles the local oikonomos, demanding the phulakitikon for 110 sheep and threatening to seize them if he is not paid. They are also bidding him make an agreement about his corn at whatever price Zenon may value it. The man who is obstructing him is Alexinikos the head policeman of Syron Kome.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 1046 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.883 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;3;59404 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.3.59404 tier-1
HGV-Text 1046 tier-1

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