Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 327)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Ariston (Strategos and nomarches from Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Strategi, Greek --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two fragments which do not join,
	mounted in glass, lower end broken off.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 8.2 x 8.3 cm. or smaller.
	13 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 3 cm.; left margin of 1.5 cm.; right
	margin of .5 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-326
	and P.Duk.inv. 328-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 327 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 4.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which a person informs Ariston strategos
	and nomarches, a high civil and army official in
	the area involved with taxation and one of the first
	friends of the king, about some official business.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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