Title: Official report(?), [2--] Subject: Governors --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Scribes --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Strategi, Greek --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Material: 1 item : papyrus, four fragments which do not join, mounted in glass, very incomplete. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 6.8 x 3.5 cm. or smaller. 11 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto in a chancery hand. Upper margin of 2 cm. on the second fragment. P.Duk.inv. 741 was formerly P.Duk.inv. W81 2. Official report(?) or petition(?) from Egypt, written on papyrus. Mentions the praefectus Aegypti or prefect of Egypt, a royal scribe and an acting strategos, the highest civil official in the region. In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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