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Herais Ἡραΐς

host of a dinner · Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt · 3rd century

A woman of Oxyrhynchus, known only from one invitation to the wedding feast of her children.

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3rd century · The whole text of a wedding invitation. The ninth hour is about three in the afternoon.

Herais asks you to dine at the wedding of her children, at her house, tomorrow, which is the 5th, from the ninth hour.

ἐρωτᾷ σε Ἡραὶς δειπνῆσαι εἰς γάμους τέκνων αὐτῆς ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὔριον, ἥτις ἐστὶν πέμπτη, ἀπὸ ὥρας θ.

Oxyrhynchus Papyri I 111 (P.Oxy. I 111)

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