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                  <summary>beginning of a letter with an invocation to the holy trinity which was common during the reign of Heraclius, but is perhaps later than that. It is probably a scribal exercise. In the back: "the Lord listens to my prayer"</summary>
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                     <note type="general">incomplete?</note>
                     <note type="general">written in a very proficient elaborate hand</note>
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                     <origDate notBefore="0500" notAfter="0690">500 CE – 690 CE</origDate>
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                     <p>from Thebes, Monastery of Epiphanius.  Property of the Metropolitan Museum, sold to Columbia University in 1958</p>
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