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Letter from Didymos to Hephaistion

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Accession: P.Wisc. inv. 50
Find spot: Unknown, Egypt
Period: IInd century A.D.
Date: IInd century A.D.
Date range: 100 CE – 199 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 21.3 x 9.9 cm']
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Description

The most important feature of this letter is that it mentions a new strategos of the Oxyrhunchite nome. Philonikos, to whom the addressee of thius letter is secretary, was unknown. The person who delivered this letter was probably Theon (lines 14/14 and 22).

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 26688 primary
APIS-Text wisconsin.apis.5433 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.wisc;2;73 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.wisc.2.73 tier-1
HGV-Text 26688 tier-1

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