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Title: Polemon's letter
[Kerkeosiris], to Menches
Creator: Polemon (Brother of Menches)
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: 10 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Experienced cursive script.
Margins: top, 3.7 cm.; left, 2 cm.; bottom, 1 cm.
On verso (along the fibers) address: to Menches, komogrammateus.
Official letter from Polemon, to his brother Menches, village secretary of Kerkeosiris, Egypt, announcing the the approach of a high official and warning Menches to have his accounts in order. The text is dated to the third year of King Ptolemy IX Soter II, 11th of the Egyptian month Payni (June 28, 114 B.C.)
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus 14.5 x 11.3 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00034
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Kerkeosiris (Egypt)
Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Place: Kerkeosiris (Egypt)

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