Draft of an official letter(?) (P.Duk.inv. 624 V)

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150 dpi image of 624v

Catalogue Record

Title: Draft of an official letter(?), [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Associations, institutions, etc. --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --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, ten joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 20 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 19.1 x 15.2 cm.
	22 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the verso; written across
	the fibers on the recto in a different hand and inverse
	to the text on the verso.
	Upper margin of 2.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 624 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 27 V.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Papyrus draft of an official letter(?) from the Herakleopolites
	(Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Reports various incidents
	in a village. Mentions a synodos, club or association,
	and things burned up. Recto has a documentary text
	in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 624 R).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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