Catalog Record: columbia.apis.p2061 [xml]
Title | Letter |
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Summary | Business correspondence: the text probably contains instructions to an agent or subordinate and refers to the sender's previous letter and tells the recipient to look into some affair; on the recto, in the first line, there are traces of what would have been the addressee of the letter on the verso; below those traces and a large blank space a new letter begins |
Citations | |
Inv. Id | Col.inv. 718 |
Support/Dimensions | 1 papyrus ; 20 x 24 cm. |
Language | In Arabic |
Date | [3rd cent. AH] |
Note (general) | On one side 17 lines of writing; in the other at least 12 lines; both sides may be written by the same hand |
Note (general) | The papyrus is tattered and full of holes; on one side the opening line is faded and there is a hole at the end; the second line following the opening formulae is missing and the third line is gone; much of the remaining 9 lines are faded, dirt encrusted or damaged |
Note (general) | The verso has all but the top margin. |
Note (general) | The letter has some words crossed out |
Note (general) | There is a modern note in the lower right corner of the recto "5020 c Fostat" |
Subjects | Business letter; Papyri |
License | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
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