Catalog Record: duke.apis.32077880 [xml]
Title | Business letter [not before 500] |
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Author | Enkot, (From Egypt) |
Summary | Business letter from Pathyris(?), Egypt, written on animal skin. Written by Enkot to Saltik, his business partner. Enkot sends twenty items on three camels along with a female slave Enkot requests the shipment of various goods in exchange(?). These goods include ten camel hides(?), five containers and five other vessels. Enkot instructs Saltik to buy a container of oil. If any money is left over, Saltik should buy some good clothes including a sackcloth(?) for half a solidus, a sheepskin for a solidus(?), a cloak for three solidi, etc. Saltik should give someone whose name begins with "Ap" a cloak. The marginal note instructs Saltik to give someone whose name begins with "At" two items. Probably part of the group of documents on animal |
Citations | |
Inv. Id | P.Duk.inv. 283 |
Support/Dimensions | 1 item : animal skin, mounted in glass ; 36 cm |
Language | In Coptic |
Date | 500 CE – 699 CE |
Note (general) | Actual dimensions of item are 35.5 x 28.0 cm |
Note (general) | 20 lines |
Note (general) | Written on the hair side |
Note (general) | Upper margin of 1 cm.; lower margin of 7 cm.; left margin of 1.5 cm.; right margin of 3.5 cm |
Note (general) | P.Duk.inv. 283 was formerly P.Duk.inv. C 31 |
Subjects | Saltik -- (From Egypt), -- 5th cent.; Merchants -- Egypt -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Shipment of goods -- Egypt -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Camels -- Egypt -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Slaves -- Egypt -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Oils and fats -- Egypt -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Costume -- Egypt -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D.; Documentary papyri Egypt 30 B.C.-640 A.D; Business letters Egypt 30 B.C.-640 A.D |
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License | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
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