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Description
19 lines, written on recto along the fibers. Clear and regular script. Margins: top, 2.5 cm.; left, 1 cm.; right, 0.5 cm. bottom, 4 cm. Between lines 18 and 19 there is a blank space of 4.7 cm. On verso: address (along the fibers) Agathon strongly rebukes Patron (personal name) for neglect of his orders. Both probably hold posts in the Oxyrhynchite Nome. Text is dated the 4th year [probably of King Ptolemy III Euergetes], the 9th of the Egyptian month Payni (July 30, 243 B.C.) Patron is also on record in P.Tebt. III.1, 744-746, 748-749. In Greek.
Type
image
Format
Documentary papyri Correspondence
Extent
1 item papyrus 31.2 x 9 cm.
Identifier
(t_papyri)00040
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject
Patron (Resident of Egypt) Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)--Officials and employees Documentary papyri Correspondence
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