Title: Documentary text, [3rd cent. B.C.] Subject: Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, three fragments of which two join, mounted in glass, very incomplete. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 6.0 x 7.2 cm. or smaller. 23 lines. Written across the fibers on the recto in a tiny hand; written along the fibers on the verso. Extracted from mummy cartonnage. P.Duk.inv. 655 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 58. Papyrus documentary text from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Mentions the month Pachon. In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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