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Title: SB 6.9025, Cotton, and the Economy of the Small Oasis
Author(s): BAGNALL, Roger S.
Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Volume: 45    Date: 2008   
Pages: 21-30
DOI: 10.2143/BASP.45.0.3209348

Abstract :
SB 6.9025 is restudied in light of the much larger amount of information now available for cotton cultivation in the oases of the Western Desert of Egypt. The goods to be sent by the writer are shown to be those characteristically produced in the oases and shipped to the Valley, and it is argued that the place of writing is probably the Small Oasis.

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