Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 329)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Author: Chairemon (Official from Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Ariston (Strategos and nomarches from Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Herodas (Official from Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Strategi, Greek --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Wheat --Egypt --Transportation --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, three joining fragments mounted in
	glass, lower end broken off ; 18 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 17.5 x 16.6 cm.
	15 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; the first line
	is written in a different hand; written along the
	fibers on the verso in the hand of the main text,
	the address in large letters.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.; left margin of 3 cm.; small right margin.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-328
	and P.Duk.inv. 330-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 329 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 6.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which Chairemon, an official, and
	another person address Ariston strategos and nomarches,
	a high civil and army official involved with taxation
	and one of the first friends of the king.  They inform
	Ariston of some official business relating to a visit
	of Herodas, an official and possibly the brother
	of the dioiketes, the finance secretary of Egypt,
	to Ptolemais Hormou(?). Herodas complained about
	the fact that Ariston had not yet taken care of the
	delivery of wheat expected from him.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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