Contractor's letter : fragment : to the officials of a village. 2nd century B.C.
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Description
Apparently concerns unproductive land.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
Translations (1)
ENscholarly· J. Bauschatz (via PN in 2014)
... who has received … the unproductive land of the Arsinoite nome to the epistatai in Berenikis Thesmophorou and the police chiefs and the district scribe and the village scribe and the machimoi and the desert guards and the cattle-keepers in the … of the reported unproductive land around the villages …
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