Official letter(?) (P.Duk.inv. 617)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter(?), [123 B.C.? June 11?]
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, three joining fragments mounted in
	glass, very incomplete ; 11 x 13 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 11.0 x 12.2 cm.
	13 lines.
	Written in two columns across the fibers on the recto, the.
	address(?) written along the fibres on the verso.
	Lower margin of 2 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 617 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 20.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Papyrus copy of a letter(?) from the Herakleopolites
	(Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Letter is introduced
	by a cover letter(?). Mentions Petearsemtheus. Dated
	to Pachon 22, year 47(?) (June 11, 123 B.C.(?)).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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