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1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Criminal Case from Roman Empire


The Papyrus Cotton is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the region in 129/130 CE and before the outbreak of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132.

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