Private letter in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 510)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Private letter, [1st cent.]
Subject: Cameleers --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Fig --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Personal correspondence --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, lower end is broken
	off ; 10 x 14 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 9.8 x 13.6 cm.
	10 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; the address
	written along the fibers on the verso.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin of 0.5 cm.; small
	right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 510 was formerly P.Miss. 76.
	Papyrus letter from Egypt in which Ptolemais
	(Ptolemaios?) writes to her (his?) sister Tnephersois about
	a camel driver who may have conveyed a basket of dried
	figs and other goods she sent her (him?).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
		       

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