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Fragment of a letter

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Accession: JE53759
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: mid 3rd c. B.C.
Date: mid 3rd c. B.C.
Date range: 275 BCE – 225 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 10.5 x 10.5']
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Description

Probably part of a letter from a strategos to the village authorities, forwarding a petition and requesting them to reconcile the disputants or, if they cannot, to send them to him immediately.

The same text in other collections

Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 1249. Each record below describes this same ancient text from a different angle.

Fragment of letter HGV-meta Arsinoites (?)Mitte III v.Chr.
p.cair.zen.4.59617 DDbDP-text textArsinoites (?)Mitte III v.Chr.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 1249 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1089 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;4;59617 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.4.59617 tier-1
HGV-Text 1249 tier-1

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