Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 333)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Author: Lagos, 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Peteembes (Commander from Egypt), 2nd cent. 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, two joining fragments mounted in
	glass, very incomplete ; 15 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 14.6 x 16.7 cm.
	9 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; a marginal line
	is written inverse to the main text in another hand;
	the first two lines are set off from the letter which
	starts in line 3.
	Left margin of 5 cm.; right margin of .5 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-332
	and P.Duk.inv. 334-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 333 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 10.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which Lagos represents others and
	addresses Peteembes, a commander. The letter is embedded
	in a larger document.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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