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In the name of God, the Compassionate, [the Merciful]/From 'Abd al-Malik bn Mar[wan to the postmaster of Ashmun]./Give 'Abd al-Hamid, [my messenger .... who is]/a fair, handsome youth t[wo post mounts]/one of them the [post guide's] mount. [written by .... in the month]/of Shawwal, in the year [one hundred and thirty-one]
Date created
8th century CE (131 AH)
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Letters
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[from Abd al-Malik bn Marwan to] the postmaster of Ashmun
Date created
8th century CE (131 AH)
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Letters
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Remains of a letter (earlier than the recto).
Date created
8th-9th century
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Letters
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Almost complete letter to Apa John (a monastic dignatary) from Apa Shoi, the priest of the mount of Pnomt. Verso is blank.
Date created
4th-5th century
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Letters
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Three disconnected fragments of a letter from Apa Shoi to Apa John. Verso is blank.
Date created
4th-5th century
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Letters
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A letter to an ecclesiastic dignitary named Apa John from Porphyra, seeking help. The idiom shows several Ahmimic forms. Verso is blank.
Date created
4th century
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Letters
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A letter to an ecclesiastic dignitary named John from an unnamed person, greeting several persons and requesting the recipients' prayers. The script is of early, upright uncials, of a type unusual in private documents.
Date created
4th-5th century
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Letters
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Two fragments of a letter to an ecclesiastic dignitary named John from an unnamed person, regarding an old man who has been put into custody. The script is an early type.
Date created
4th-5th century
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Letters
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Almost complete fragment of a letter to an ecclesiastic dignitary named John from Kelbaule, regarding help for another man named Psenteapis. The script is an early type.
Date created
4th-5th century
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Letters
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A fragment of a letter to an ecclesiastic dignitary named John from an unnamed person. The script is a relatively early type.
Date created
4th-5th century
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Letters
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Letter from Zacharias to 'his sincere friend Rashid, the most glorious amir', referring to the taxes of certain villagers.
Subject
Letters
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Letter to a superior, to whom the writer entreats to remember him. The author goes on to cite Matthew 9. 12 and express his devotion to the superior. A letter is requested in return. Verso is blank.
Date created
4th-5th century
Subject
Letters
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Letter to a superior containing a request. The text mentions the name Apa Shoi. Early type of script.
Date created
4th-6th century
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Letters
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Fragment of papyrus in fine script. Letter from a widow relating the settlement of a debt of 170,000 talents, in which a man was forced to sign away his children.
Date created
4th century
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Letters
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Verso of a Coptic letter, containing remnants of an account or list in Greek (?).
Date created
4th century
Subject
Letters
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Letter, citing Jeremiah's weeping over Jerusalem and Christ's pity for the blind, and begging the recipient's good offices with the prefect. The writer says that he has sold his clothes.
Date created
4th century
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Letters
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Letter to a revered personage, asking for an application on the writers behalf to the primicerius. The script is of an early type.
Date created
5th-6th century
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Letters
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Letter from . . . to his 'dear brother', whose prayers and help are asked for.
Date created
4th-5th century
Subject
Letters
Description
Letter to a superior or some revered personage, begging his benevolence for 'the brothers Joseph the deacon and Ammonion the reader', concerning whom Isaac had gone to law. Large script.
Date created
5th-6th century
Subject
Letters
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Letter from a pagarch, through his son, to certain villages and to the inhabitants of Psoi-Ptolemais. It relates to the collection of taxes.
Date created
7th-8th century
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[Accounting, Letters]
Description
Fragment of a letter.
Date created
10th century
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Letters
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Fragment of a letter.
Date created
10th century
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Letters
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Letter reporting a conversation with a woman. The dialect is fully Achmimic.
Date created
10th-11th century
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Letters
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Letter to a woman referring to legal affairs. Early script.
Date created
6th century
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Letters
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Letter to agent and friend. They deal for the most part with issues around farm stock and produce.
Date created
38 CE
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Letters
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Letter to agent and friend. They deal for the most part with issues around farm stock and produce.
Date created
38 CE
Subject
Letters
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Letter to agent and friend. They deal for the most part with issues around farm stock and produce.
Date created
40 CE
Subject
Letters
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Letter to agent and friend. They deal for the most part with issues around farm stock and produce.
Date created
40 CE
Subject
Letters
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Hand is the same as the other fragments on this series but this was written in haste leading to larger letter formations.
Date created
40 CE
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Letters
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Hand is the same as the other fragments on this series but this was written in haste leading to larger letter formations.
Date created
40 CE
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Letters
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The recipient of this letter, Ammonaphris, is warned that the strategus had made inquiries about him in connection with the secretaryship of the public cultivators.
Date created
2nd century CE
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Letters
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Part of a series of letters from Syrus to Heroninus.
Date created
256 CE
Subject
Letters
Description
A nearly complete column of a letter. Occupied with business details but the context is not clear. Since the verso contains a letter written by Alypius it is likely that the recipient of the document on the recto was Alypius himself.
Date created
3rd century CE
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Letters
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A letter from Alypius concerning huntsmen sent to hunt wild boars.
Date created
3rd century CE
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Letters
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A letter from Horion to Euporus giving instructions regarding land.
Date created
3rd century CE
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Letters
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A order from Horion to Heroninius to supply some hay.
Date created
3rd century CE
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Letters
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Letter from two women, Demarion and Irene, to their steward, Syrus, consoling him on a prevailing lack of water - probably an insufficient rising of the Nile.
Date created
2nd century CE
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Letters
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10 lines of an unaddressed letter.
Date created
159 Aug 30 - Sep 28 CE
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Letters
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A letter to possibly written by Amyntas. While Apollonius was travelling Amyntas had charge of the household and wrote to his chief, but more often his friend Zenon.
Date created
257 BCE
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Letters
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A letter to possibly written by Amyntas. While Apollonius was travelling Amyntas had charge of the household and wrote to his chief, but more often his friend Zenon.
Date created
257 BCE
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Letters
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Letter from Addaeus containing an account of a sum of money spent by him on various kinds of business. It was received by Zenon at Mendes in the Delta.
Date created
257 BCE
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Letters
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Letter from Addaeus containing an account of a sum of money spent by him on various kinds of business. It was received by Zenon at Mendes in the Delta.
Date created
257 BCE
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Letters
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From a subordinate to Zenon, who was travelling with Apollonius, who wishes to know when they will return to Memphis.
Date created
257 BCE
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Letters
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From a subordinate to Zenon, who was travelling with Apollonius, who wishes to know when they will return to Memphis.
Date created
257 BCE
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Letters
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A brief note of approval from the dioecetes, the king's minister of finance.
Date created
256 BCE
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Letters
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A brief note of approval from the dioecetes, the king's minister of finance.
Date created
256 BCE
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Letters
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Written in a large hand along the fibres; a junction of two sheets runs down the middle.
Date created
251 BCE
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Letters
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