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TM 131894 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/131894

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Date: BC 129 Dec 12?

Provenance: Herakleopolites ? - Egypt (20th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Content (beta!): Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt dated Hathyr 20, year 32? (150 B.C.? or 139 B.C.?). In the letter, Konnos, an official, informs Ariston strategos and nomarches, a high civil and army official in the area involved with taxation and one of the first friends of the king, about his trip to the villages of Kerkesephis and Samareia in the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum) in search of a supply of wood. Konnos eventually found the wood in Samareia. However, the men of Lochos strategos, another high official and possible the strategos of the Thebaid of ca. 127-117 B.C., have prevented shipment of the wood

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: address

Note: reused as cartonnage

More info: DDbDP (PN)Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri => 114817 links in TM, PN-APIS (Duke)Advanced Papyrological Information System (now part of PN) => 1786 links in TM

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