Letter (P.Duk.inv. 648 R (b))

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150 dpi image of 648r

Catalogue Record

Title: Letter, [not before 899 B.C.]
Subject: Priests --Egypt --To 332 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --To 332 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --To 332 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, left part is broken
	off ; 25 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 24.7 x 14.8 cm.
	14 lines.
	Palimpsest, written along the fibers on the recto, over and inverse
	to a previous text in a different hand that has been
	washed out; written across the fibers on the verso
	in different hands.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; lower margin of 2.5 cm.; right
	margin of 1 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 648 R (b) was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 51 R.
	Papyrus letter from Egypt. Written to a god's father
	(a priest). Written over a documentary text in Abnormal
	Hieratic (P.Duk.inv. 648 R (a)). Verso has an account
	in Abnormal Hieratic (P.Duk.inv. 648 V (b)) that
	is written over a documentary text in Abnormal Hieratic
	(P.Duk.inv. 648 V (a)).
	In Abnormal Hieratic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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