Official memorandum (P.Duk.inv. 601)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official memorandum, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Shipping --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Wheat --Egypt --Transportation --332-30 B.C.
	Scribes --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Memorandums --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete at the
	top ; 18 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 17.8 x 16.6 cm.
	14 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Lower margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin of 4 cm.; right
	margin of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 601 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 4.
	Papyrus official memorandum from the Herakleopolites
	(Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt). Relates to some official
	business involving transportation of wheat(?) by
	ship(?). Mentions Ariston, topogrammateus or scribe
	of an area within a nome.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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