Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 68 (P. Oxy. 68) concerns a dispute over a debt, written in
Greek
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. The manuscript was written on
papyrus
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in the form of a sheet. It was discovered by
Grenfell and
Hunt
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in 1897 in
Oxyrhynchus
Oxyrhynchus (; grc-gre, Ὀξύρρυγχος, Oxýrrhynchos, sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian ''Pr-Medjed''; cop, or , ''Pemdje''; ar, البهنسا, ''Al-Bahnasa'') is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo ...
. The document was written on 25 June 131. Currently it is housed in the
John Rylands University Library
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in
Manchester
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. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898.
[P. Oxy. 68]
at the Oxyrhynchus Online
The letter was addressed to a high official, probably the ''
epistrategus,'' petitioning for his intervention. The name of the author is lost. He disputes the validity of a claim for payment by the author's son Sarapion against the son's maternal grandfather's estate. The measurements of the fragment are 182 by 92 mm.
See also
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Oxyrhynchus Papyri
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (, mo ...
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 67
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 69
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 69 (P. Oxy. 69) is a complaint about a robbery, written in Greek. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The document was written on 21 Novem ...
References
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068
2nd-century manuscripts