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Monthly Meat Bill of a Cook 183 or 215 CEOxyrhynchos

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Accession: P.Penn. Museum inv. E02753
Find spot: Oxyrhynchos, Egypt approx. site location
Period: 183 or 215 CE
Date: 183 or 215 CE
Date range: 183 CE – 215 CE
Materials: ['12.5 x 15.3cm. Main text written in two columns along the fibers; two lines on the other side also written along the fibers perpendicular to the main text in the middle top area, from the top down (identifying the document). All margins intact.']
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Description

Account of a cook, giving a list of different kinds of meat supplied during Thoth and the latter part of the month preceding. The twenthy-fourth year of an Emperor, who is more probably Caracalla (thus about 215 CE) than Commodus (thus 183 CE), is mentioned. 183 or 215 C.E.

The same text in other collections

Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 20767. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Monthly Meat Bill of a Cook HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos215
p.oxy.1.108 DDbDP-text textOxyrhynchos215

Connections

Found at Oxyrhynchus

Deities Thoth Montu

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 20767 primary
APIS-Text upenn.apis.8 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.oxy;1;108 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.oxy.1.108 tier-1
HGV-Text 20767 tier-1

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