| Name: |
Asklepiades |
| Variants: |
Tomos of Asklepiades |
| Place: |
U20 - Herakleopolites |
| Century: |
BC1 |
| Begin: |
BC 29 |
| End: |
BC 23 |
| Language/script: |
Greek |
| Material: |
papyrus |
| num_certain: |
11 |
| num_uncertain: |
1 |
| num_errorneous: |
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| num_related: |
0 |
| num_total: |
12 |
| type: |
private (letters) |
| protagonist: |
Asklepiades is archive holder. His sister Isidora is addressor of the largest part of the letters. |
| pnr: |
32767 |
| 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-Melek; according to Ollson, they were glued together in a kind of tomos synkollesimos. |
| studies: |
B. Ollson, Papyrusbrief aus der frühesten Römerzeit, no. 1-7; J.L. White, Light from Ancient Letters, no. 63-65; R.S. Bagnall - R. Cribiore, Women’s letters from ancient Egypt, Michigan 2006, p. 114-122. |
| lists: |
Montevecchi, La papirologia (1988), p. 251 no. 19b |
| work: |
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| collections: |
Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
