Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 607 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, Year 37 Mesore 6 [133 B.C. Aug. 26]
Subject: Swine --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Poultry --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Larceny --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, four joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 17 x 18 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 17.0 x 17.8 cm.
	14 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the verso; written along
	the fibers on the recto in a different hand and inverse
	to the text on the verso.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.; left margin of 1.5 cm.; right
	margin varies.
	P.Duk.inv. 607 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 10 V.
	Papyrus official letter from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt. Concerns some official business relating
	to pigs and poultry as well as theft(?). Dated to
	Mesore 6, year 37 (August 26, 133 B.C.). Recto has
	another official letter in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 607 R).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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