Official letter(?) (P.Duk.inv. 611)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter(?), [131 B.C. May 29 or 121 B.C. May 26]
Subject: 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, mounted in glass, very incomplete ; 15 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 15.0 x 7.0 cm.
	9 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto.
	Lower margin of 4 cm.; right margin of 2.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 611 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 14.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Papyrus letter(?) from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt. Relates to some official business.
	Dated to Pachon 7, year 39 or 49 (May 29, 131 B.C.
	or May 26, 121 B.C.).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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