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Apprenticeship to a Weaver TM 16813Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of EgyptAugust/September 53 A.D.

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Apprenticeship to a Weaver

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Wisc. inv. 8 · August/September 53 A.D. · Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

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 …