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Title: Letter from Paulinus
To Heron
Creator: Paulinus (Resident of Egypt)
Heron (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, 16 lines, written onrecto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Margins: top, 2.4 cm.; left, 1.5 cm.; bottom, 6 cm.
On verso, in black ink: "T267"
On verso: 1) traces of ink from the writing on the recto (ink still when the papyrus was rolled from left to right); 2) traces of address (along the fibers)
Paulinus informs Heron, his son, that the Epistrategus (district civil governor) had made inquiries for him and urges him to come at once. The text is dated to the 3rd of the Egyptian month Pachon (Apr. 28)
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Personal correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, complete 21.8 x 8.3 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00090
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Documentary papyri
Personal correspondence

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