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Document Details : Title: An Oxyrhynchite Marriage Contract as School Exercise? Author(s): GARVEY, Tom Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume: 47 Date: 2010 Pages: 67-73 DOI: 10.2143/BASP.47.0.3209309 Abstract : P.Mich. inv. 6665 shares many features with Oxyrhynchite marriage contracts. Several peculiarities, however, militate against interpreting it as a 'real' marriage contract, and rather make it seem an exercise of sorts. These are: the strictly graded series of amounts included in the document (2, 20, 200); the omission of other specifics where expected; the quasi-literary style of writing; and the correction in a different hand in l. 10. Noteworthy is the left-leaning slant of the main text. |
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