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Official letter [2nd cent. B.C.]

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Description

Papyrus letter from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt in which a son of Philinos, 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, of some official business related to the delivery of wheat(?) for tax purposes

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