Official letter (P.Duk.inv. 722)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official letter, [192/191 B.C.?]
Author: Apollonios, (Official from the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Scribes --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Tax collection --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Correspondence --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two fragments which do not join,
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 8.3 x 5.3 cm. or smaller.
	6 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; written along
	the fibers on the verso; the docket written along
	the fibers on the verso.
	Upper margin of 3 cm.; small left margin; small right margin.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 720-721
	and P.Duk.inv. 723-727.
	P.Duk.inv. 722 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 68.
	Papyrus letter from the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum),
	Egypt. Written by Apollonios to the royal scribe
	about tax arrears. Mentions year 14 (192/191 B.C.?).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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