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Voices of Greco-Roman Egypt

Papyri linked across DDbDP, HGV, and APIS by Trismegistos ID · 122,012 objects.

After Alexander, Egypt's daily life was written on papyrus in Greek: contracts, letters, tax receipts, petitions, and literature. This theme gathers the documentary-papyrus corpus, where a single Trismegistos-Text ID stitches each document's edition (DDbDP), its scholarly metadata (HGV), and its physical record (APIS) into one cross-referenced whole. Photographs, where they exist, come from the APIS collections (especially Duke).

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At the station of Halis, the gathered amount to Ammonios, the steward, in the month of Pauni, the 6th day, regarding the wage of Paon during the present 13th year for the present 13th year the respon…

σταθμῷ Ἁλίνης τὸ συναγόμενον Ἀμμωνίῳ ἐπιτρόπῳ Παυνι μηνῶν ϛ ει ὑπὲρ μισθοῦ Παα ων τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιγ ἔτους υ ἐν…

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aegyptus.103.72_2

Theadelphia (Arsinoites, Ägypten) · 200 - 268 (?)