Private letter from Marres to Marres.Petesouchos son of MarresAPISberkeley.apis.473(CU)473p.tebt.1.560206;1;56p.tebt;1;5636923692P.Tebt.0056Marres asks another Marres to find him land at Kerkeosiris for the maintenance of himself and the cattle.Verso unpublished.In red ink in top margin: 56.1658Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., BerkeleyGreek1 papyrus ; 24 x 13.4 cm.18 lines, on recto along the fibers.On verso some effaced lines.
Regular cursive.
Late 2nd century B.C.KerkesephisMarres, son of Petosiris.
Crocodile cartonnage at Tebtunis 5.2
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekFlood damageCost of livingKerkesephisTebtunisPersonal letters, Ptolemaic periodRectoVerso
Petesouchos son of Marres, cultivator of Kerkesephis, to Marres son of Petosiris � his brother, greeting. You must hear about our plain having been inundated; we have not so much as food for our cattle. Please therefore in the first place to give thanks to the gods and secondly to save many lives by seeking out in the neighborhood of your village five arouras for our maintenance so that we may thence obtain food. If you do this I shall be eternally obliged to you. Good-bye.
P.Tebt., I.56; Hunt, A.S. Sel. pap. v. 1, no. 102; Witkowski, Epistulae privatae, no. 54; White, J.L. Light from Ancient Letters, no. 52. See BL v. 2, p. 169.P.Tebt.:1:56