Photographic Archive of Papyri in the Cairo Museum


P.Cair.Zen. 2 59156

12 x 29.5 (not including the fragment in the British Museum)

CG59156; JE48602

Letter from Apollonios to Zenon

(27th December, 256 B.C.)

Zenon is ordered to take from Memphis, from Apollonios' own garden and from the palace grounds, pear shoots and young plants, as many as possible, and also to get some sweet-apple trees from Hermaphilos, all to be planted in the orchards at Philadelphia.

 

 

 

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