Letter (P.Duk.inv. 277)

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150 dpi image of 277r

150 dpi image of 277v

Catalogue Record

Title: Letter, [not before 299 B.C.]
Subject: Gods, Egyptian --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 12 x 18 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 11.4 x 17.5 cm.
	14 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; written along
	the fibers on the verso inverse to the text on the recto.
	Left margins of 1.0 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 277 was formerly P.Duk.inv. E 3.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Letter from Egypt, written on papyrus. Letter from
	"your servant."  Mentions Sobek, the Egyptian crocodile god.
	In Demotic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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