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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, M I 18
Parchment · 1 f. · 15.5 x 18.5 cm · 619 to 629 AD
List with information about military recruitment
Information about the conscription of troops. It names several cities along the Nile (among them Elephantine, Herakleion, Oxyrhynchus) that had to supply soldiers for the Persian commander Šērag. This document, written in Middle Persian (Pahlavi) on parchment, dates from between 619 and 629 AD, the time of the Sassanid occupation of Egypt.
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