Draft of an official report (P.Duk.inv. 686 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Draft of an official report, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Governmental investigations --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30  B.C.
	Public records --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Official reports --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, right part is broken
	off ; 17 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 16.6 x 10.3 cm.
	11 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written along
	the fibers on the verso in a different hand.
	Upper margin of 2.5 cm.; lower margin of 3.5 cm.; left
	margin of 1 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 678-685
	and P.Duk.inv. 687-690.
	P.Duk.inv. 686 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 13 R.
	Papyrus draft of a report from the Arsinoites (modern
	name: Fayyum), Egypt. Report is by Leonides(?) and
	concerns an investigation into administrative records.
	Verso has a list of persons(?) in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 686 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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