Petition(?) (P.Duk.inv. 688)

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Catalogue Record

 Title: Petition(?), [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Spartakos (Epimeletes from the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Wine and wine making --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Taxation --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Petitions --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 9 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 9.0 x 8.2 cm.
	10 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; traces of ink on the verso.
	Left margin of 1.5 cm.; small right margin.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 678-687
	and P.Duk.inv. 689-690.
	P.Duk.inv. 688 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 15.
	Papyrus petition(?) concerning taxation(?) from the
	Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt. Mentions
	an amount of ordinary wine as well as a decision
	by Spartakos the well-known epimeletes, or financial
	administrator.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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