Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 694)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Author: Philammon (From Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Mikion (From Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 14 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 13.6 x 11.0 cm.
	10 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; the address
	written along the fibers on the verso. The name "Mikioni"
	written in large letters.
	Upper margin of 3.5 cm.; left margin of 3 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 691-693
	and P.Duk.inv. 695-697.
	P.Duk.inv. 694 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 21.
	Papyrus official letter from Egypt in which Philammon
	writes to Mikion about correspondence from Neikias,
	an assistant of Polemon and someone whose name begins
	with "Di".
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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