Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 330)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Ariston (Strategos and nomarches from Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Strategi, Greek --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, very incomplete ; 7 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 6.2 x 13.9 cm.
	3 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; traces of ink on the verso.
	Upper margin(?) of 2 cm.; left margin of 2.5 cm.
	Extracted from cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-329 and
	P.Duk.inv. 331-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 330 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 7.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which Arist- and someone else inform
	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, of some
	official business.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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