Letter(?) (P.Duk.inv. 882)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Letter(?), [not before 299 B.C.]
Subject: Priests --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Thoth (Egyptian deity).
	Land titles --Egypt --Registration and transfer --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, three joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 17 x 3 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 16.6 x 3.0 cm.
	12 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; the address
	written across the fibers on the verso.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.; lower margin of 4 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 882 was formerly P.Duk.inv. E 6.
	Letter(?) from Egypt, written on papyrus. Letter(?)
	to a priest of Thoth about the transfer of a piece
	of property(?). Dated in Payni (a month).
	In Demotic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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