Beginning of P.Lond. IV 1370, a Letter Concerning a Deficit in the "embola"Kurrah ben SharikAPIShermitage.apis.17(RU-SPGE)17p.lond.4.13700154;4;1370p.lond;4;137020496a20496Hermitage inv. 13339fThis is the first 2 lines of P.Lond. IV 1370, a letter (entagion) from the governor of Egypt, Kurrah b. Sharik, to the pagarch, Basilius, seeking remedy of a deficit in the "embola," or grain tax2 lines, against the fibers; on the back is part of the addressFor the date, see BL VI, 122; the date given on the verso is 20 November, 710 A.D.Greek; Arabic5.5 x 8.8 cm3 November, 710 A.D.kome Aphrodito
From the collection of N. Likhachov; once housed in the Paleographical Museum of the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg; now in the Hermitage Museum
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P.Ross.Georg. IV 12 P.Lond. IV 1370 BL VI, 122; for discussion of the letters of Kurrah b. Sharik see H. Cadell, "Correspondance de Kurrah ben Sharik" Recherches de Papyrologie IV (1967), 107-160, esp. 133-160P.Lond.:4:1370