Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 680)

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150 dpi image of 680r

150 dpi image of 680v

Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Author: Dionysios (From the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Diodoros (From the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Feeds --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 16 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 15.1 x 9.4 cm.
	7 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; the address
	written along the fibers on the verso in large letters.
	Upper margin of 4 cm.; lower margin of 2.5 cm.; small
	left margin(?).
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 678-679
	and P.Duk.inv. 681-690.
	P.Duk.inv. 680 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 7.
	Papyrus letter from the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum),
	Egypt. Dionysios writes to Diodoros and mentions
	fodder(?) and Tebtynis.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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