Official letter from Marres : to Menches Marres APIS berkeley.apis.518 (CU)518 p.tebt.4.1100 0206;4;1100 p.tebt;4;1100 3871 3871 P.Tebt.1100 Official letter from Marres to Menches, forwarding a letter from the Basilikos Grammateus (royal scribe) concerning a change of ownership of a plot of cleruchic land. Verso published. Margins: top, 2.9 cm.; left, 3.1 cm.; in top margin, in red ink: 239. 3rd year of Ptolemy IX Soter II, 24th of the Egyptian month Mecheir (received). Menches archive 1769 Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Greek 2 papyri ; Frag. 1, 12.6 x 13.2 cm.; Frag. 2, 13.6 x 14.1 cm. 10 lines, on recto along the fibers. On the verso, address.

2 different hands, both regular cursives; 1 (lines 2-10) Body of letter; 2 (line 1) notice of receipt.

 13 Mar. 114 B.C. Menches Horos Aristippos

Crocodile cartonnage at Tebtunis 28.8

 APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent. English Greek Cleruchic land Land tenure Kerkeosiris Business letters, Ptolemaic period Recto Verso
(2nd h.) Received in the 3rd year, Mecheir 24. (1st h.) Marres to Menches, greeting. I have appended a copy of the letter from Horos, the Basilikos Grammateus, about the cession which he states has been made to Philonautes son of Apollonios of a holding of 5 arouras in the vicinity of Kerkeosiris in order that you, being informed, may execute its instructions. Good-bye. Year 3, Mecheir 21. Horos to Marres, greeting. I have appended a copy of the letter from Aristippos, superintendent for the assignment (of land) to the katoikoi hippeis. Good-bye. Year 3, Mecheir 19. Aristippos to Apollonios, greeting. I have appended a copy of the petition given to me by Philonautes. Therefore, since my scribes have also reported that the cession has in fact been made to him � (Here the papyrus breaks off.)
P.Tebt., I.239; P.Tebt., IV.1100 P.Tebt.:4:1100

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