A hypographê with an Oath in an Official Document =

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Editorial Secretary,Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University, Egypt.

10.21608/iwnw.2025.433374

Abstract

This paper is an editing to the unpublished document P. Lund. inv. 178; it is dated to the 41st year of Caesar (Augustus)'s reign. The papyrus has two sides; the recto bears a signature or subscription with an affidavit and oath. The verso consists of two columns; the second column in it has an oath formula.

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