Private letter (P.Duk.inv. 675 (b))

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Catalogue Record

Title: Private letter, [195/194 B.C.]
Subject: Memphis (Extinct city) --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Personal correspondence --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 28 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 27.7 x 17.7 cm.
	9 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto with a pen, not a brush.
	Small upper margin; lower margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin
	of 1 cm.; right margin of 2 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 675 (b) was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 2 (b).
	Papyrus letter from the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum),
	Egypt. Has instructions that mention Petheus and
	Lysanias. Mentions also the house of Dionyios and
	Memphis. Preceded by a private letter in Greek
	(P.Duk.inv. 675 (a)).
	In Demotic.
	 Publication: J. D. Sosin and J. G. Manning, "Palaeography and Bilingualism:
        P.Duk.inv. 320 and 675," Chronique d' Égypte 78(2003) 202—210.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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