Oxyrhynchus Papyrus Fragment (Letter from Woman to her Mother)
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Oxyrhynchus Papyrus Fragment (Letter from Woman to her Mother)
Place of OriginEgypt
Date2nd or 3rd century
Dimensionsmaximum: 6 5/16 × 3 13/16 in. (16 × 9.7 cm)
MediumIndia ink on papyrus
ClassificationManuscripts
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1915.37
Not on View
DescriptionThis papyrus, written in Greek on both sides, contains a letter of thanks from a woman to her mother.
Published ReferencesGrenfell, Bernard P. and Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, London, 1908, pp. 318, no. 963.
Stoner, Jo, "'Extending the Self' through Material Culture: Private Letters and Personal Relationships in Second-Century AD Egypt," Archaeological Review from Cambridge, vol. 29.1, April 2014, p. 132, repr. (col.) p. 131.
late 2nd century CE
late 3rd century CE
late 3rd century CE
2nd or 3rd century
2nd century
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