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In what, as far as I have ascertained, is the longest private letter surviving among the papyri, Ammon writes from Alexandria to his mother (Senpetechensis, whose Greek name is Nike [13.49], the second wife of his father Petearbeschinis1) in Panopolis, apparently the matriarch of the family. She has sent Ammon to Alexandria to negotiate pending matters of family concern, and the letter is his report on his progress thus far together with news of his brother Harpocration. His stay in Alexandria on his current mission was clearly quite extended (col. ii.13).
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Willis, W.H., Maresch, K. (1997). Ammon’s Letter to his Mother. In: Willis, W.H., Maresch, K. (eds) The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis. Abhandlungen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-14299-7_4
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