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Document Details : Title: An Order to Supply a loricarius with Bread from Oxyrhynchus Author(s): QUINTANA, Alejandro Ruben Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume: 57 Date: 2020 Pages: 353-362 DOI: 10.2143/BASP.57.0.3288516 Abstract : Edition of a late antique order from an unidentified comes to supply bread to a metalworker called loricarius, previously unattested in Greek. The text suggests that the class of ship called καρίς 'shrimp' was so named because its armor plating recalled the exoskeleton of the crustacean. |
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