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Two official letters of Menches : to Horos : drafts 18 Aug. 114 B.C.Kerkeosiris
Description
Rough drafts of two official letters from Menches, village secretary of Kerkeosiris, Egypt, to Horos, probably the Basilikos Grammateus. Both letters report on matters related to an attack on Polemon, the Epistates (superintendent) of Kerkeosiris.
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 3651.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- chrest.mitt.43 DDbDP-text Kerkeosiris (Arsinoites)-114
- Two Letters of Menches to Horus HGV-meta Kerkeosiris (Arsinoites)-114
Cross-references (5)
- TM-Text 3651 primary
- APIS-Text berkeley.apis.407 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.tebt;1;15 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.tebt.1.15 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3651 tier-1
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