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Private letter
Description
A sharply worded letter from Dios to Zoilos, who, though called the writer's friend in one of the two addresses on the verso, is blamed for his absence and for having presented an unsatisfactory account of payments in connection with a vineyard or garden-land. At the end Dios threatens to take measures against Zoilos's surety, and thoughout writes in the tone of an official superior. Not improbably he was an "epiteretes" and Zoilos a "cheiristes", the land belonging to an ousia, or being at any rate administered by the goverment. The period of the letter is probably the period from Commodus to Caracalla.
Connections
Found at
Oxyrhynchos
Cross-references (5)
- TM-Text 28995 primary
- APIS-Text perkins.apis.3996 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;12;1483 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy.12.1483 tier-1
- HGV-Text 28995 tier-1
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