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Official letter from Menches to Horos

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Accession: P.Tebt.0038 Recto
Find spot: Kerkeosiris, Egypt approx. site location
Period: 2 Mar. 113 B.C.
Date: 2 Mar. 113 B.C.
Date range: 113 BCE – 113 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 24 x 30.8 cm.']
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Description

Menches informs Horos that Apollodoros, contractor for the retailing and the tax upon oil at Kerkeosiris, had discovered that oil (a state monopoly) was being smuggled, appending a copy of the petition from the Apollodoros to Menches.

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Found at Kerkeosiris

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 3674 primary
APIS-Text berkeley.apis.404 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.tebt;1;38 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.tebt.1.38 tier-1
HGV-Text 3674 tier-1

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