| Name: |
Asklepiades |
| Variants: |
Tomos of Asklepiades |
| Place: |
U20 - Bousiris (Abusir el-Meleq) |
| Century: |
BC01 |
| Begin: |
BC 29 |
| End: |
BC 23 |
| Language/script: |
Greek |
| Material: |
papyrus |
| Texts: |
12 |
| ↳ certain: |
11 |
| ↳ uncertain: |
1 |
| ↳ erroneous: |
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| Type: |
private archive (letters) |
| Protagonist: |
Asklepiades is archive holder. His sister Isidora is addressor of the largest part of the letters. |
| Description: |
Correspondence between members of a single family. All letters are addressed to Asklepiades alias Asklas. The texts were found in mummy cartonnage from Abusir el-Meleq; according to Olsson, they were glued together in a kind of tomos synkollesimos. |
| Studies: |
Olsson, Papyrusbriefe aus der frühesten Römerzeit, 1925, no. 1-7; White, Light from ancient letters, 1986, no. 63-65; Bagnall / Cribiore, Women’s letters from ancient Egypt, 2006, p. 114-122 |
| Lists: |
Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 251 no. 19b |
| Work: |
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| Collections: |
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum |
| Note: |
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