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Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

P.Penn. Museum inv.E02766 Emancipation of a Slave

Title

Emancipation of a Slave

Authors

Call number

P.Penn. Museum inv.E02766
(Philadelphia, United States, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collection)

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Language

English; Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Late 1st CE
Place
Oxyrhynchos

Summary

Beginning of a notice from [De]metrios and Didymos to the agoranomus, requesting him to free a female slave, Zeus (Sky) Earth Sun.

Notes

Extent

7.0 x 6.0 cm

Support

Papyrus

Layout

  • Text is on one side only, 7 lines written with the fibers. Upper and right margins are intact; one or two characters are missing on the left margin; the bottom is torn away.
  • Provenance

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    fol. 1r
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    fol. 1v
    13627_0001.tif (27.4 MB)
    13627_0001_thumb.jpg (4.8 KB)
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