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Title: Official letter from Herakleides
To elders of the farmers of Areos Kome
Creator: Herakleides (Resident of Egypt)
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: 18 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular semi-uncial cursive.
Margins: left, 2.8 cm.; the last two lines written in the top margin.
Some traces of paint and stucco on recto.
Verso: address (along the fibers)
Herakleides complains to the elders of the farmers of at Areos Kome for waiting too long regarding steps to be taken against Petesokonouris. Meaning and nature of action is not clear.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, complete 16.9 x 18.2 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00095
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Petesokonouris, (Resident of Egypt)
Farmers--Egypt--Areos Kome
Documentary papyri
Correspondence

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