Letter [III-IV AD]CorneliusAPIScolumbia.apis.p315(NNC)aaa1239p.col.10.2820094;10;282p.col;10;2823184031840Col.inv. 172Business letter from Cornelius to his associate Theon: Cornelius made advance payments for vineyard work to Theon and demands reinbursementWritten along the fibers; the back is also written along the fibersThe letter consists of a long, complex sentence12 lines of writing by a large, inclined hand on what was probably the back of a reused papyrus; beginnings of 11 lines on the front (an account?) by a different, more elaborate hand; most of the space on the front is unwrittenIn Greek1papyrus, broken on the bottom ; 11.5 x 10.5 cm250 CE – 350 CE
Purchased by Columbia University from M. Nahman through H.I. Bell, in 1924; no. 18 (box XIVc) in Bell's inventory
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(Front) Cornelius to Theon, his dear friend, greeting. Since not only the secretary but also everyone else has given instructions for the distributions of the wine which you manage, of which I submitted accounts for Tybi and Mecheir, and which were distributed by me to the vinedressers, to be given to me, on the grounds that they are owed by you--I instruct you as a matter of urgency, my friend, in order that you may know and be forewarned, in order to avoid incurring any penalty . . .