Photographic Archive of Papyri in the Cairo Museum


P.Cair.Zen. 4 59541

14 x 6.5

CG59541; JE53727; SR0259

Letter from Noumenios to Zenon

(10th April, 257 B.C.)

Noumenios, who had been ordered by Apollonios to meet him in Memphis by a certain date, writes to ask when Apollonios intends to sail up from Mendes and where he has decided to celebrate the king's birthday and on what day in the Egyptian calendar the festival and sacrifice will take place.

 

 

 

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