Official letter(?) (P.Duk.inv. 630)

Images

150 dpi image of 630

Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter(?), Year 34 Mecheir 2 [147 B.C. Feb. 27 or 136 B.C. Feb. 24]
Subject: Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 8 x 13 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 7.7 x 12.8 cm.
	4 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.; lower margin(?) of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 630 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 33.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Papyrus official cover letter(?) from the Herakleopolites
	(Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Dated to Mecheir 2,
	year 34 (Feb. 27, 147 B.C. or Feb. 24, 136 B.C.).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

Images and texts on these web pages are intended for research and educational use only. Please read our statement on use and reproduction for further information on how to receive permission to reproduce an item and how to cite it.

If you are interested in the techniques used to create the images (compression, color correction, resolution), please see the document on imaging techniques. If you are interested in the methodology used to create the catalogue record, please see the article on the papyrus catalogue records.

Return to the papyrus home page

Return to Duke University Special Collections Library home page

Please see our page with contact information if you have any comments or questions about the Duke Papyrus Archive.