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Letter from Amyntas to Zenon

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Accession: JE48514
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: 257 BC (?)
Date: 257 BC (?)
Date range: 257 BCE – 257 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 19 x 12.5']
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Description

Amyntas announces that he has sent Apollonios a consignment of fish of various kinds and regrets that he has been unable to send Zenon the Chian wine and the other things which he had ordered. The excuse he gives is that the king is summoning Apollonios

The same text in other collections

Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 723. Each record below describes this same ancient text from a different angle.

Letter from Amyntas to Zenon HGV-meta Alexandria257 v.Chr. (?)
p.cair.zen.1.59066 DDbDP-text textAlexandria257 v.Chr. (?)

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Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 723 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.549 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;1;59066 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.1.59066 tier-1
HGV-Text 723 tier-1

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