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Excavations at Nessana, Volume 3: Non-Literary Papyri
By (Author) C. J. Kraemer
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
913.33
Paperback
392
Width 216mm, Height 279mm
907g
In 1937 the Colt Archaeological Expedition, excavating the ancient site of modern Auja Hafir in the Negeb, uncovered two storerooms containing the hoard of Greek papyrus documents of the 6th and 7th centuries. These non-literary papyri contain military, church, and family records, as well as an Arab archive on the caravan industry. Originally publ