Literary texts (P.Duk.inv. 759 (b))

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150 dpi image of 759r

150 dpi image of 759v

Catalogue Record

Title: Literary texts, [not before 99 B.C.]
Subject: Literary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 5 x 6 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 4.7 x 5.1 cm.
	4 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso; in the upper margins of 
	other texts in other hands.
	Upper margin of 0.5 cm. on the recto; upper margin
	of 1.5 cm. on the verso.
	P.Duk.inv. 759 (b) was formerly P.Rob.inv. 19.
	Literary text from Egypt, written on papyrus. Text
	has a hexameter line followed by an elegiac distich(?)
	and an iambic trimeter(?) on the verso. Pen trials
	are apparently written in the margin of a discarded
	documentary papyrus (P.Duk.inv. 759 (a) R and
	P.Duk.inv. 759 (a) V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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