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Title: Chaireas' private letter
Creator: Chaireas (Resident of Egypt)
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Tebtunis Papyri
Rights Information: FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited: Direct requests for copies or permission to publish to the Rare Books Curator, The Bancroft Library.
Description: 1 column, 22 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Writing is much faded.
Margins: top, 1.1 cm.; left, 1.3 cm.; bottom, 6.3 cm.
On verso in black ink: "T 205"
Verso: otherwise empty.
Chaireas informs the addressee (whose name is lost in a lacuna) about some problems regarding the circumcision of a boy.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Personal correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 21.9 x 9.4 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00081
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Circumcision--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
Documentary papyri
Personal correspondence

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