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Writing Exercise

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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 6888
Find spot: Ptolemais Hormou, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: ca. 184-185 A.D.
Date: ca. 184-185 A.D.
Date range: 184 CE – 185 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 14 x 7.4 cm']
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Description

The nearly illiterate village secretary Petaus practices his writing by copying his signature (as in P.Petaus 121)

The same text in other collections

Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 12634. Each record below describes this same ancient text from a different angle.

Notizen: Unterschriftsübung des Petaus HGV-meta Arsinoites182

Connections

Found at Ptolemais Hormou

Cross-references (4)

TM-Text 12634 primary
APIS-Text michigan.apis.3381 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.petaus;;122d tier-1
HGV-Text 12634 tier-1

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