Official report (P.Duk.inv. 602)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official report, Year 33 Thoth 27 [23 October 138 B.C.]
Author: Atis (Village scribe of Tekmi), 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Euphranor (Strategos from the Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Strategi, Greek --332-30 B.C.
	Scribes --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Official reports --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass ; 14 x 21 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 13.6 x 20.7 cm.
	11 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto, the first line
	in a different hand; written along the fibers on
	the verso in yet another hand.
	Upper margin of 4 cm.; small lower margin; left margin
	of 6 cm.; right margin of 2.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 602 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 5.
	Papyrus report by Atis, the village scribe of Tekmi
	and Bichinthouth in the  Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt. Concerns the visit to Tekmi of Euphranor,
	strategos or highest official in the region and a
	person equal in status to the first friends of the
	king, and the guards stationed at Papa. Dated on
	the verso to Thoth 27, year 33 (October 23, 138 B.C.).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
Publication: J. D. Sosin and J. Bauschatz, "Four Duke Papyri concerning 
Pesouris, Basilikos Grammateus," Zeitschrift 
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141(2002) 177—190, with notice of 
earlier and incomplete
publication: "An Official report," by Royce L. B. Morris and John
	F. Oates. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists,
	22(1985): 243—247 (plate p. 247).See also Sammelbuch vol. 18,
 	no. 13304 

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