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                  <summary>Official letter to Ptolemaios, epimeletes, concerning affairs reported by Phanesis, village scribe of Koitai.</summary>
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                     <note type="general">The date is based on the occurrence of the epimeletes Ptolemaios, on record for 140/139 B.C.</note>
                     <note type="local_note">1003</note>
                     <note type="local_note">Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley</note>
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                     <origDate notBefore="-0140" notAfter="-0139">About 140/139 B.C.</origDate>
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               <term>Crown land</term>
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            <ab>To Ptolemaios, epimeletes. Phanesis, komogrammateus of Koitai, has reported in the letter sent to us that some of the more considerable inhabitants of Arsinoe who are cultivating plots at the said villages belonging to the katoikoi at the court ... (text breaks off)</ab>
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               <bibl>P.Tebt., III.734, lines 21-27</bibl>
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               <ref target="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/apisdb/record/15">Original record</ref>.</p>
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