Official letter(?) (P.Duk.inv. 335)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter(?), [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Slaves --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Shrines --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, four joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 14 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 13.2 x 16.4 cm.
	12 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto.
	Right margin of 1 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-334
	and P.Duk.inv. 336-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 335 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 12.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which a person informs another person
	of some official business(?) relating to a sacred
	slave who is associated with a shrine.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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