Susan Rahyab
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Susan Rahyab
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Historian of Egypt under the Roman Empire.
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January 20, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Reposted by Susan Rahyab
#OTD in 189 BC, a draft receipt recording how a local official received wine rations for Macedonian soldiers serving their liturgy. Considering there were armies fighting rebels in the Thebaid that year, a post in Philadelphia in the Fayum was a cushy gig.

P.Yale I 37
papyri.info/ddbdp/p.yale...
September 22, 2023 at 3:07 PM