Private letter (P.Duk.inv. 319)

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150 dpi image of 319r

150 dpi image of 319v

Catalogue Record

Title: Private letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Tenemas (Slave girl from the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt),
	2nd cent. B.C.
	Women slaves --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Personal correspondence --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, top broken off ; 22 x 10 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 21.4 x 9.6 cm.
	29 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; continued across
	the fibers on the verso inverse to the text on the recto.
	Lower margin of .5 cm.; left margin of 2 cm.; right
	margin of .5 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 313-318
	and P.Duk.inv. 320-323.
	P.Duk.inv. 319 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF84 7.
	Papyrus letter from the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum),
	Egypt in which the author asks the addressee to send
	Tenemas, a slave girl, to take care of his house
	so that he can visit the addressee now that the Stratonikos
	has already gone off to Hippalos.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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