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Receipt of a waterwheel axe (P.oxy 137)

Receipt of a waterwheel axe (P.oxy 137)
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Receipt of a waterwheel axe (P.oxy 137)

Category:
Written documents, manuscripts, papyri
Date:
Byzantine Period, 584 CE
Provenance:
Upper Egypt, Minya, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) (discovered in 1897)
Material(s):
Organic material, fiber (from plants/animals), papyrus
Length:
32 cm;
Width:
20 cm
where to find:
Storeroom



The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References
  • Todd M. Hickey, “Notes on Some Cairo Papyri from Byzantine Oxyrhynchus (Part I)”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) 123 (1998): 161-164.
  • Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire: nos 10001-10869: Greek Papyri, vol. 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903): 6.
  • Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, eds., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 1, Egypt Exploration Fund (London: The Office of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898): 217-218.
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