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Title: Conclusion of an official letter
Creator: 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: 1 column, 7 lines written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Top margin: 3 cm.
Number "25" written in red ink in top margin.
Below this text, in different hand: Writing exercise, after 117 Mar. B.C. (P.Tebt. I.25 recto (2))
On verso: Lists of names, [between 125 and 100 B.C.]
Conclusion of an official letter, warning the addressees not to take sides with persons working against the profit of the crown. The text is dated to the 53rd year of Ptoleny VIII Euergetes II, the 17th of the Macedonian month Xandikos, the 17th of the Egyptian month Mecheir (Mar. 6, 117 B.C.)
Forms part of: Menches archive.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 28 x 18.5 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00052
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Crown lands--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
Profit--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
Documentary papyri
Correspondence

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