Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 336)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Lochos (Strategos 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, two fragments which do not join,
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 11.8 x 8.9 cm. or smaller.
	15 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; traces of ink on the verso.
	Small right margin.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-335
	and P.Duk.inv. 337-434.
	P.Duk.inv. 336 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 13.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt in which a person informs another person
	of some official business relating to Lochos strategos,
	a high civil and army official involved in taxation
	and possibly the strategos of the Thebaid of ca.
	127-117 B.C. The Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum)
	is mentioned.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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