Lease of land (P.Duk.inv. 717)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Lease of land, [140/139 B.C.]
Subject: Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Leases --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, left part is broken
	off ; 31 x 9 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 30.9 x 8.8 cm.
	36 lines.
	Written along the fibers in three different hands;
	written across the fibers on the verso in yet another hand.
	Small upper margin; lower margin of 1 cm.; small right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 717 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 57.
	Papyrus lease of land from the Arsinoites (modern name:
	Fayyum), Egypt. Has both the interior and the exterior
	of a "double" document. In the contract of lease,
	Dionysios is one of the parties. The text is written
	on behalf of the illiterate lessee by someone else.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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