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Title: Official letter from Marres
[Kerkeosiris, Egypt] to Menches
Creator: Marres (probably Topogrammateus of Kerkeosiris)
Menches, komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris
Menches, Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Tebtunis Papyri
Rights Information: FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited: Direct requests for copies or permission to publish to the Rare Books Curator, The Bancroft Library.
Description: 22 lines written on recto across the fibers.
Two different hands: 1, body of letter, 2, notice of receipt.
Verso empty.
Official letter from Marres (Topogrammateus), to Menches. village scribe of Kerkeosiris, forwarding a letter from the Basilikos Grammateus (royal scribe) concerning a change of ownership of a plot of cleruchic land. The forwarded from the Basilikos Grammateus is dated to the 5th year of Polemy IX Soter II, 22nd of the Egyptian month Phamenoth (Apr. 9, 112 B.C.)
Forms part of: Menches archive.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, almost complete 14.3 x 31.3 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00054
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Land tenure--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Documentary papyri
Correspondence

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