Title: Petition(?), Year 40 [131/130 B.C.] Subject: Ptolemaios (Official from Egypt), fl. 130 B.C. Actions and defenses --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Petitions --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, four fragments which do not join, mounted in glass, very incomplete. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 5.9 x 6.2 cm. or smaller. 11 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto; the address in large letters along the fibers on the verso. Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-373 and P.Duk.inv. 375-434. P.Duk.inv. 374 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 51. Papyrus petition(?) from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt addressed to Ptolemaios. Dated year 40 (131/130 B.C.). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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