Letter

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33186209

Description

Title
Letter
Published / Created
Byzantine
Abstract

Letter from a large estate context, probably 6th century CE. The writer mentions sending a pronoetes and symmachos to the Oxyrhynchite village of Pthochis. He claims not to have received a response (perhaps to previous letters) and to be in need of an exemption (?????). Letter closes with uncertain reference to a village headman (??????) and a symmachos. The only intact word in frag. B (??????????????) indicates that the letter surely concerns a debt of some sort.

Description
Greek
Provenance
Acquired by gift and purchase, 1889-2005. Acquisition information is recorded in each individual description and on the Library’s Web site, here: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/research-teaching/doing-research-beinecke/introduction-yale-papyrus-collection/guide-yale-papyrus#Acquisition, The Yale Papyrus Collection was held by the Yale University Library from 1899 to 1930, when it was moved to the Department of Classics. The collection was transferred from the Department of Classics to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library gradually between 1964 and 1967. A group of items including wax tablets and mummy tags (P.CtYBR inv.4971-4985) was transferred from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History to the Beinecke Library in 1996., 1997a
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
YPC
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Container / Volume
box P.CtYBR inv. 5186

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Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Citation
P.CtYBR inv. [#]. Yale Papyrus Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Object ID (OID)
33186209

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