Horoscope (P.Duk.inv. 912)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Horoscope, [not before 30 B.C.]
Subject: Horoscopes --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Scorpio (Astrology) --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Venus (Planet) --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Saturn (Planet) --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Jupiter (Planet) --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Subliterary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, left part is broken
	off ; 8 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 7.3 x 6.1 cm.
	7 lines.
	P.Duk.inv. 912 was written along the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; lower margin of 0.5 cm.; right
	margin of 0.5 cm.
	Horoscope from Egypt, written on papyrus. Horoscope
	for someone whose name ends with "thos" or "thes."
	Dated under Augustus. The child was born in the night
	from the 25th to the 26th, when Jupiter was in Scorpio
	and Saturn in Venus. Headed with the words "to good luck."
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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