Letter (P.Duk.inv. 317 R (b))

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150 dpi image of 317r

Catalogue Record

Title: Letter, [3rd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Gods, Egyptian --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 30 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 29.5 x 16.4 cm.
	19 lines.
	Palimpsest,written along the fibers on the recto over an erased
 	text in a different hand; written across the
	fibers on the verso in different hands.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margin of 1 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 317 R (b) was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF84 5 R.
	Papyrus letter from the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum),
	Egypt. Written to a god(?). Written over a wiped
	out text (P.Duk.inv. 317 R (a)). Verso has another
	documentary text in Demotic (P.Duk.inv. 317 V (a))
	and a petition in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 317 V (b)).
	In Demotic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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