Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 332 R)

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150 dpi image of 332r

Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [not after 136? B.C.]
Subject: Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Scribes --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two joining fragments mounted in
	glass, very incomplete ; 9 x 22 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 8.4 x 21.3 cm.
	11 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso in a different hand, inverse
	to the text on the recto.
	Lower margin of 10 cm.; small right margin(?).
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-331
	and P.Duk.inv. 333-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 332 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 9 R.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which a person informs another person
	of some official business involving a village scribe.
	Verso has a documentary text in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 332 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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