Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 326)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [Year 32? Hathyr 20 [150 B.C.? or 139 B.C.?]]
Author: Konnos (Official from Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Ariston (Strategos and nomarches from Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Lochos (Strategos from Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Strategi, Greek --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Wood --Egypt --Samareia (Extinct city) --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two fragments which do not join,
	mounted in glass.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 10.6 x 18.2 cm. or smaller.
	14 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; written along
	the fibers on the verso in a different hand, the
	address in large letters, inverse to the text on the recto.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margin of 1 cm.; left
	margin of 3 cm.; small right margin.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-325
	and P.Duk.inv. 327-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 326 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 3.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt dated Hathyr 20, year 32? (150 B.C.?
 	or 139 B.C.?). In the letter, Konnos, an official,
	informs Ariston strategos and nomarches, a high civil
	and army official in the area involved with taxation
	and one of the first friends of the king, about his
	trip to the villages of Kerkesephis and Samareia
	in the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum) in search
	of a supply of wood. Konnos eventually found the
	wood in Samareia. However, the men of Lochos strategos,
	another high official and possible the strategos
	of the Thebaid of ca. 127-117 B.C., have prevented
	shipment of the wood.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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