Photographic Archive of Papyri in the Cairo Museum


P.Cair.Zen. 1 59121

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CG59121; JE48569

Letter from Ktesias to Zenon

(28th January, 256 B.C.)

Ktesias writes that he is unable to sell the two jars of caviar and that Hierokles advises him to use them for private consumption and not let them be wasted. The pomegranate seed also is too old to sell.

 

 

 

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