Description of land (P.Duk.inv. 781 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Description of land, [not before 127]
Subject: Land tenure --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, right part is broken
	off ; 22 x 10 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 21.3 x 9.5 cm.
	3 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the verso; written along
	the fibers on the recto in different hands and inverse
	to the text on the verso.
	Upper margin of 3.5 cm.; lower margin of 5 cm.; left
	margin of 1 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 781 V was formerly P.Rob.inv. 45 V.
	Description of land from the Heracleopolite Nome, Egypt,
	written on papyrus. Records neighbors (north: Demetrios;
	south: a property; west: sacred land owned by a temple
	and formerly owned by Leon(?). Recto has a documentary
	text in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 781 R (a)) that is glued
 	onto a petition in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 781 R (b)).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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