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Ancient ties reappear as Oxyrhynchus life mirrors today
The article notes two thousand year echoes in Oxyrhynchus showing life then resembled modern living. Letters and records reveal farming, credit, rent, seed loans, and even a town drunk, a donkey driver, and a child’s letter mirroring contemporary concerns.
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Babylon
Oxyrhynchus
Cairo
Joseph
Mary
Jesus
Egypt
Lucius Bellenus Gemellus
Gemellus
Endzmon
Longinus
Megalonymus
Strategos
Themistes
Polemo
Arsinoite Nome
Pasion
Heraclides
Onesimus
Ammonius
Theadelphia
Polydencia
Mystharion
Heron
Satabous
Pekusis
Pisais
Pilais
Heracleus
Cleon
Seleucus
Centurion
Tsidorus
Titus the Centurion
Achilles
Sarapammon
Sarapion
Apollonius
Apollinous
Soterichus
Dionysias
Theon
Alexandria
Archelaus
Mr. Dooley
Epagathus
Apjas
Pindarus
Hermonax
Kerkesucha
Farmer Smith
Jones
John