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A GREEK PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT
FAYUM, ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Inscribed in Greek, reading in part: "... for the regular census declaration of the current year Tapiamis, daughter of Onnophris, the son of Tesenouphis, communicates to Socrates, ex-gymnasiarch, and Antipatros, the keepers of the archives of the immovables, that she has acquired one fourth part of a house and courtyard..."

86 x 78 mm.

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