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Title: Application by Menches for the post of komogrammateus at Kerkeosiris, Egypt
Creator: Menches, komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris
Dorion, 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: Verso: empty.
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Menches seeks reappointment as komogrammateus (village secretary) at Kerkeosiris, Egypt, promising to pay a certain amount of grains at the vllage. A certain Dorion adds 60 artabas to the amount promised by Menches. The text mentions the 51st year (of King Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II), 6th of the Egyption month Pachon (May 25, 119 B.C.)
Forms part of the Menches archive.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Extent: 1 item papyrus, incomplete 29.5 x 11.4 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00005
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Kerkeosiris (Egypt)--Officials and employees
Documentary papyri
Place: Kerkeosiris (Egypt)
Officials and employees

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