Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 613)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Author: Ptolemaios (From the Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Asklapon (From the Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Actions and defenses --Egypt --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, sixteen partly joining fragments
	mounted in glass, incomplete ; 11 x 30 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 10.7 x 29.8 cm.
	11 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; the summary
	in line 1 is in a different hand; written along the
	fibers on the verso in the same hand as the summary.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; lower margin of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 613 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 16.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt, by which Ptolemaios informs Asklapon
	about the petition(?) of Hermias son of Dionysios
	to Komanos. Mentions Asklepiades. Summary in line
	1 and the docket mention Ktesippos.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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