Documentary text (P.Duk.inv. 17)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Documentary text, [1--]
Subject: Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Strategi, Greek --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Bahnasa --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, thirteen partly joining fragments
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 7.4 x 13.1 cm. or smaller.
	At least 8 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 3.5 cm. except for the page number;
	lower margin of 3.5 cm.; right(?) margin of 2.0 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 17 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 17.
	Documentary text from Oxyrhynchos (modern name: Bahnasa),
	Egypt, written on papyrus. A dossier sent to an official
	in Phamenoth, late February to late March, that quotes
	at least one official letter. Mentions both the epistrategos,
	a regional official, and an administrative official
	in Alexandria responsible for a particular nome.
	Involves Psenamounis. Page number 39 of a larger roll.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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