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Letter about funeral expenses
Papyrus Created date: 260–275Among the documents shedding light on funeral practices in Graeco-Roman Egypt is this incomplete sheet of papyrus from t...
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Letter from a schoolboy to his father
Papyrus Created date: 3rd centuryThis reused papyrus sheet was cut out from a larger piece preserving some official document. The blank back of the papyr...
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Letter to a son-in-law
Papyrus Created date: 249–299Writing appears on both sides of this fragmentary papyrus. The text on the front, which runs parallel to the fibres, is...
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Petition to the prefect of Egypt
Papyrus Created date: 263A document addressed to the prefect of Egypt is preserved in this papyrus sheet. A certain woman called Aurelia Thaisous...
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Will of Lucius Ignatius Rufinus
Papyrus Created date: 211Produced during the early third century, this is one of the Latin papyri of the British Library collections. It originat...
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