Official report (P.Duk.inv. 592 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official report, Year 29 Epeiph 27 [152 B.C. Aug. 22 or 141 B.C. Aug. 19]
Subject: Altars, Hellenistic --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Strategi, Greek --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Armed Forces --332-30 B.C.
	Land settlement --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Official reports --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 10 x 18 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 9.1 x 17.9 cm.
	5 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; written along
	the fibers on the recto in a different hand.
	Lower margin of 4 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 588-591
	and 593-597.
	P.Duk.inv. 592 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. 71 5 V.
	Papyrus official report from the Arsinoites(?) (modern
	name: Fayyum), Egypt. Concerns a deserted altar.
	Mentions military settlers and the strategos, the
	highest official in the region. Dated to Epeiph 27,
	year 29 (August 22, 152 B.C. or August 19, 141 B.C.).
	Recto has a register(?) in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 592 R).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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