Orders to supply seed in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 533)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Orders to supply seed, Year 2 of Trajan Phaophi 5 [98
	October 2]
Subject: Granaries --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Seeds --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Farmers --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Public lands --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Strategi, Greek --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Scribes --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, first text very
	incomplete, second text has top broken off ; 11 x 15 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 10.8 x 14.7 cm.
	22 lines.
	Written in two columns along the fibers in two different
	hands on the recto.
	Lower margin of 1.5 cm.; small right margin. A tomos synkollesimos.
	P.Duk.inv. 533 was formerly P.Miss. 100.
	Two papyrus orders to supply seed from Egypt. Both
	order the person in charge of state granaries to
	supply seed to state farmers. The second is dated
	to Phaophi 5, year 2 of Trajan (October 2, 98 A.D.).
	Signed by the strategos, the highest civil official
	in the area, and the royal scribe.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
		       

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