Official correspondence (P.Duk.inv. 706)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official correspondence, [242 B.C.]
Subject: Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Armed Forces --Cavalry --332-30 B.C.
	Prisons --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Commercial products --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Cavalry horses --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Tax collection --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Weapons, Ancient --Egypt --Inspection --332-30 B.C.
	Weapons, Ancient --Egypt --Defects --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, many fragments mounted in eight frames
	of glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 22.1 x 51.7 cm. or smaller.
	167 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	P.Duk.inv. 706 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 39-46.
	Papyrus verbatim copies of official letters from Egypt.
	The first frame of glass contains letters relating
	to the Oxyrhynchite Nome, and three of these letters
	are exactly dated (Xandikou 10, or Pachons 7, or
	June 26, 242 B.C. and Artemisiou 4, or Pachons 30,
	or July 19, 242 B.C.). One letter is quoted in another
	and bears no exact date. The best preserved letters
	relate to the inspection of arms of the cavalry.
	These arms were found to be defective and had to
	be replaced within a certain period. Mentions a commander
	of these cavalry men. The officials involved in this
	matter are Antipatros, Phanias, and Neoptolemos.
	Another official is Diodoros.
	In the second frame of glass, the best preserved letter
	relates to the collection of wheat as taxes in kind.
	It mentions a prison and the town Ptolemais. The
	letter addresses the official Agias. In the third
	frame of glass, the best preserved copy of an official
	letter relates to colts and a commander, presumably
	of cavalry men. In the fourth frame of glass, the
	copy of a circular letter relates to the sale of
	commodities. In the fifth frame of glass, the copied
	letter gives an account of deaths. In the sixth frame
	of glass, the copied letter mentions prisons. In
	the eighth frame of glass, the copied letter mentions
	cavalry men.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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