Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 130
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 130 (P. Oxy. 130 or P. Oxy. I 130) is a letter asking for relief from a debt, written in Greek and discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. The document was written in the 6th century. Currently it is housed in the Egyptian Museum (10072) in Cairo.[1]
The document contains a letter from Anoup to Apion, patrician and dux of the Thebaid. Anoup asks Apion to allow him indulgence in regard to a debt which he is currently unable to pay. Grenfell and Hunt note that it is possible that this Apion is the same as the Flavius Apion mentioned in Oxyrhynchus Papyri 133–139. However, the identification is not certain because Flavius Apion is not given the title of dux in those manuscripts. The measurements of the fragment are 318 by 240 mm.[2]
It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898.[2]
