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Title: Declaration of the birth of a son
Creator: Psyphis, of Tebtunis, 1st cent
Areios (Komogrammateus of Tebtunis)
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, 25 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Margins: top, 1.4 cm.; left, 2 cm.
Light colored papyrus.
On verso, in black ink: "T 168"
Verso otherwise empty.
Psyphis registers the birth of his son, Pakebkis, born in the 10th year of Claudius (49/50 A.D.) with Areios, village scribe of Tebtunis, Egypt.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Birth registers
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 13.8 x 6 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00075
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Pakebkis, Son of Psyphis of Tebtunis
Childbirth--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
Documentary papyri
Birth registers

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