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Letter from Molossos to Zenon
Description
Molossos writes that Theogenes had come to Mendes with three bundles of flax, probably samples, and that they were fetching such and such a price. The retail-dealers had assured him that it would be easy to dispose of 10,000 such bundles; hence he urges Zenon to begin at once sending as much as he can and to write to Promethion the local banker to lend a helping hand. Molossos had already written about the papyrus rolls and now he has sent a message through Kriton whom he met at the Delta; he hopes therefore to get word from Zenon what he is to do about them.
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 1108.
Each record below describes this same ancient text from a different angle.
- Letter from Molossos to Zenon HGV-meta Mendes256 - 246 v.Chr.
- p.cair.zen.3.59470 DDbDP-text textMendes256 - 246 v.Chr.
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- TM-Text 1108 primary
- APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.947 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;3;59470 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.3.59470 tier-1
- HGV-Text 1108 tier-1
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