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Title: Official letter of Polemon
[Kerkeosiris], to Menches
Creator: Polemon (Brother of Menches)
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: 1 column (16 lines) written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive.
Margins: top, 3.5 cm.; left, 2 cm.; bottom, 5.5 cm.
In the top margin there is a notice of receipt.
The nummber "19" is written in red ink in the left bottom corner.
On verso (along the fibers) address.
Polemon urges his "brother" Menches to hasten the collection of the taxes. The text is dated year 3 of King Ptolemy IX Soter II, the 19th of the Egyptian month Pachon (June 6, 114 B.C.)
Forms part of: Menches' archive.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, complete 24 x 13.5 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00049
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Taxation--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Documentary papyri
Correspondence

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