Title: List of villages, [not before 600] Subject: Names, Geographical --Egypt --Hermopolite Nome --640-1250. Villages --Egypt --Hermopolite Nome --640-1250. Documentary papyri --Egypt --Hermopolite Nome --640-1250. Lists --Egypt --Hermopolite Nome --640-1250. Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass ; 15 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 14.3 x 13.3 cm. 16 lines. Written in two columns across the fibers on the verso; written across the fibers on the recto in a different hand. Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margin of 2 cm.; left margin of 2.5 cm.; right margin of 1 cm. P.Duk.inv. 521 V was formerly P.Miss. 88 V. Papyrus list of 15 villages (choria) in the Leukopyrgites, the mid-southern part of the Hermopolites (Hermopolite Nome), Egypt. Includes one other administrative unit (an estate named after its fourth-century manager Besoros). Recto has a protocol in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 521 R). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository. Publications: "Une Nouvelle Liste de Toponymes du Nome Hermopolite," by Peter van Minnen, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 101(1994): 83-86.
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