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Title: Official letter from Taos and the elders of the farmers
[Kerkeosiris, Egypt] to Menches
Creator: Taos (Komarches of Kerkeosiris)
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, 21 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Regular cursive; occasional word divisions.
Margins: top, 1.5 cm.; left, 2.5 cm.; bottom, 2.4 cm.
On verso: address (along the fibers), and 2 unclear lines (across the fibers)
Taos, Komarches of Kerkeosiris, and the elders of the farmers, address Menches, the Komogrammateus, about a dispute concerning a payment of seed to them. The text is dated the 6th year of Ptolemy Soter II, 21st of the Egyptian month Phaophi (Nov. 9, 112 B.C.)
Forms part of: Menches archive.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Correspondence
Extent: 1 item papyrus, complete 25 x 12.5 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00050
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Payment--Egypt--Kerkeosiris
Documentary papyri
Correspondence

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