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Title: Warrants
Subtitle: Some Further Considerations on their Typology
Author(s): SCHUBERT, Paul
Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Volume: 55    Date: 2018   
Pages: 253-274
DOI: 10.2143/BASP.55.0.3285021

Abstract :
A reconsideration of the chronological development of the format of warrants, short notes ordering a subordinate to bring an individual before an official. The format was open to influences from other document types, such as petitions. Later, in the third century AD, a shift in the format may be linked to the changing format of private business notes.

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