Private letter in Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 454)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Private letter, [7--]
Subject: Coptic Church --Clergy --640-1250.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --640-1250.
	Personal correspondence --Egypt --640-1250.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 13 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 12.7 x 11.1 cm.
	10 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; the address
	written along the fibers on the verso.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; small lower margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 454 was formerly P.Miss. 20.
	Papyrus letter from Egypt written to an ecclesiastical(?)
	superior. The farewell includes a "holy blessing."
	In Coptic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.       
 

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