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Title: Official letter of Polemon
[Kerkeosiris], to Menches
Creator: Polemon (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: 1 column (13 lines) written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Margins: top, 3.8 cm.; left, 2 cm.; bottomm, 2 cm.
Verso: empty.
Polemon notifies Menches, the village secretary, of his arrival in Kerkeosiris, and tells Menches to join him to Berenikis.
Forms part of: Menches' archive.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 21.5 x 11 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00048
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Documentary papyri
Correspondence

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