Private letter (P.Duk.inv. 267)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Private letter, [not before 500]
Author: Ieremias (Monk from Egypt), 6th cent.
Subject: Letter-writing, Coptic --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Money --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Monasteries, Coptic --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Monks --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Personal correspondence --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 9 x 10 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 8.8 x 9.3 cm.
	7 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; small right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 267 was formerly P.Duk.inv. C 48.
	Letter from Egypt, written on papyrus. Letter from
	Ieremias and at least one other monk of an Apa Apollo
	monastery to one or more monks of the same monastery
	about a gold coin. Mentions an eleventh indiction.
	In Coptic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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