Letter to servant Epagathus |
Lucius Bellenus Gemellus |
Letter to Epagathus, requesting assistance, including shipment of dry wood. |
P.Fay. 266; full publication in progress. [On Gemellus, see intro to P.Fay. 110; Hohlwein, N., Le V�t�ran Lucius Bellienus Gemellus,
EdP 8 (1957), p.69-91; Lindsay, J., Daily Life in Roman Egypt (London 1963), 258-265,
279, 282, 307; Westermann, W. L., An Egyptian Farmer, in University of Wisconsin Studies
in Language and Literature III, 171-90; White, J. L., Light from Ancient Letters,
147-153, 167, 215.] |
P.Fay.:266 |
P.Fay. 266 |
1 papyrus; 21 x 14.3 cm. |
MS collection, 175; Box 1 |
21 lines, on recto along the fibers. |
On verso, along the fibers, address. |
Irregular cursive. |
Euhemeria
|
Greek |
10 Dec. 95 A.D.
|
Recto and verso described |
Margins: left, 2 cm.; bottom, 5 cm.; E 396 |
15th year of the Emperor Domitian; 13th day of the Egyptian month Choiak. |
Gemellus Archive |
Against the fibers on verso are very faint traces of letters occupying bottom two-thirds
of right half of document; beginning of name "Bellenus" may be visible in line 2;
unclear whether these traces belong to letter on recto. |
Belongs with Gemellus papers: P.Fay. 91; 102; 110-124; 246-277; P.Oxf. 10; SB XVIII
13144; 13145; Stud.Pal. IV, pg.116; 118.; UT inv. F0808; F0809 |
F0809 |
Private letter; Gemellus; Aphrodites polis; Euhemeria; Papyri; Private letters, Roman |
Epagathus; Orsenouphis (cf. P.Fay. 112; 115); Heron; Souchotes |
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