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Writing exercise

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Accession: P.Tebt.0686 (2)
Period: 2nd or 3rd century A.D.
Date: 2nd or 3rd century A.D.
Date range: 100 CE – 299 CE
Materials: ['2 papyri ; Frag. a: 33.3 x 33.8 cm.; Frag. b: 17 x 29.5 cm.']
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This text, preceded by an account of payments (in a different hand in opposite direction), is a writing exercise, including quote from Virgil's Georgics (Book 4, lines 1-2) repeated 6 times (frag. b recto=frame 2/2 recto); on the verso a line beginning "nulliummilli" is similarly repeated.

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TM-Text 97904 primary
APIS-Text berkeley.apis.450 tier-1

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