Official letter(?) (P.Duk.inv. 689)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter(?), [3rd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --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 ; 12 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 11.9 x 6.8 cm.
	9 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written along
	the fibers on the verso.
	Right margin of 1 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 678-688
	and P.Duk.inv. 690.
	P.Duk.inv. 689 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 16.
	Papyrus letter(?) concerning correspondence from the
	Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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