Private letter in Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 473 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Private letter, [7--]
Author: David (From Egypt) , 8th cent.
Subject: Finance, Personal --Egypt --640-1250.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --640-1250.
	Personal correspondence --Egypt --640-1250.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 7 x 9
 	cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 6.3 x 8.2 cm.
	8 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the verso; the address
	written across the fibers on the recto inverse to
	the main text; also written across the fibers on
	the recto in a different hand and inverse to the
	text on the verso.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; left margin of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 473 V was formerly P.Miss. 39 V.
	Papyrus private letter from Egypt in which David
	addresses Mena about a financial affair. Recto has a
	documentary text in Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 
473 R).
	In Coptic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.      

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