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Title: Documentary text concerning the purchase of a priestly office
Creator: Harthotes, of Tebtunis
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.
Left margin: 2.7 cm.
On verso in black ink: "T 65" (twice)
Verso: otherwise empty.
Document regarding the purchase of the priestly office of Prophetes by Harthotes, the beginning of which is lost. In the remainder, there is a copy of a letter ordering the strategos (civil governor) of the Hermapolite Nome, Egypt, to hand over the office (dated Feb. 9, 123 A.D.) and a copy of the receipt for the full sum paid for the office (6000 drachmae)
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Receipts
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 17.2 x 16.7 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00074
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Priests--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
Documentary papyri
Receipts

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