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Title: Agathon's official letter
To Patron
Creator: Agathon (Resident of Egypt)
Patron (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: 9 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Margins: top, 2.5 cm.; left, 0.4 cm.; right, 1.1 cm.; bottom, 0.7 cm.
On verso (across the fibers) Address.
Agathon, superior of Patron (personal name), requests Patron to hand over to Apollonios the position of guard. Text is dated to the 2nd year [probably of King Ptolemy III Euergetes], the 13th of the Egyptian month Mecheir (Apr. 3, 245 B.C.), possibly in the Oxyrhynchite Nome.
Patron is also on record in P.Tebt. III.1, 744, 746-749.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, incomplete 11.5 x 7 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00042
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Apollonios, 3rd cent. B.C
Documentary papyri
Correspondence

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