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Oxyrhynchus Papyrus Fragment (Payment Receipt)

Place of OriginEgypt
Date4th century
Dimensionsmaximum: 10 3/16 × 5 in. (25.9 × 12.7 cm)
MediumIndia ink on papyrus
ClassificationManuscripts
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1915.33
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DescriptionThis papyrus, written in Greek, contains an account of two payments to a Praepositus, and - at the other end - a calculation of days according to the Roman calendar.
Published References

Hunt, Arthur S., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, London, 1910, vol. VII, pp. 199 - 200, no. 1047.

Sijpesteijn, P.J., "Some Remarks on Roman Dates in Greek Papyri," Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Band 33, 1979, p. 237 ff.

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