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Village scribes of Kerkeosiris (Menches)

TM Arch id: 140

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Greek

official archive (with maybe 2 private documents)

Found in: 00c - Kerkeosiris

BC02

Also called archive of Menches village scribe of Kerkeosiris

Protagonist: Menches (Go to TM People)

Description: The archive is usually called 'archive of Menches', but in fact it continues under his successors. It contains land registers, petitions, accounts, some literary texts.

Publication: P. Tebt. 1, 4, 5

Studies: Pestman, P. Rainer Cent., 1983, p. 127-134; Verhoogt, Menches, komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris (P. L. Bat. 29), 1998; Verhoogt, Regaling officials in Ptolemaic Egypt (P. L. Bat. 32), 2005 [= P. Tebt. 5]; http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu/collection/menches; Waebens in A Blackwell companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt, 2019, p. 205-206 no. 4

Lists: Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 251 no. 17

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176 texts (of which 165 certain, 11 uncertain)

(source limitations: -800 to 800)

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TM number	Publication	Status	Material	Language	Date

TM 988240	P. Tebt. Berkeley inv. UC 1867 ined.	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 299 - AD 799?
TM 3644	SB 14 11943	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 202 Oct 13 - 201 Oct 11? (P04 or P05, year 04) or BC 219 Oct 17 - 218 Oct 16? (P04 or P05, year 04)
TM 3642	P. Tebt. 1 6	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 139 Feb 3 - 12 after ((P08), year 31, Panemos 1[ ])
TM 3892	P. Tebt. 1 263 descr.	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 139 Sep 27 - 138 Sep 26? (P08, year 32)
TM 3787	P. Tebt. 4 1116	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 132 - 121? ((Feb)?; cf. BL 11, p. 283)