Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 331)

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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 ; 12 x 5 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 11.9 x 4.6 cm.
	9 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto, except for perpendicular
	lines at the lower end.
	Upper margin of 3 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-330
	and P.Duk.inv. 332-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 331 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 8.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which a person 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, of some official business.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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