Official memorandum(?) (P.Duk.inv. 623)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official memorandum(?), Year 43 Phamenoth 26 [127 B.C. Apr. 17]
Subject: Scribes --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Accounting --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Memorandums --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 17 x 8 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 16.2 x 8.0 cm.
	13 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.; small right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 623 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 26.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Papyrus memorandum(?) from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt. Relates to some official business involving
	a topogrammateus or scribe of an area within a nome.
	Mentions the rendering of an account. Dated to Phamenoth
	26, year 43 (April 17, 127 B.C.).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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