Documentary text (P.Duk.inv. 79)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Documentary text, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two fragments which do not join,
	mounted in glass, very incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 7.0 x 3.2 cm. or smaller.
	7 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto. Verso has red paint.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	P.Duk.inv. 79 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 79.
	Documentary text from the Arsinoite Nome(?) (modern
	name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. The date
	is written in Demotic.
	In Greek and Demotic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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