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Apprenticeship to a Weaver

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Accession: P.Wisc. inv. 8
Find spot: Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: August/September 53 A.D.
Date: August/September 53 A.D.
Date range: 53 CE – 53 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 10.5 x 21.6 cm']
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Description

Although Pausiris was a master of the weaver's trade so that he could take apprentices, he apprenticed his own sons to other weavers. This procedure might be occasioned by a law prohibiting a father to take his own son as apprentice. This phenomenon might just as well point to a vast specialization in the trade or might be explained on psychological grounds.

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Found at Oxyrhynchos

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 16813 primary
APIS-Text wisconsin.apis.5380 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.wisc;1;4 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.wisc.1.4 tier-1
HGV-Text 16813 tier-1

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