Translation: Polemon to Menches, greeting. Since we are coming at dawn on the 29th, see that all the debts due to you and to the cultivators are in order on that day. You will set out for Berenikis with me with regard to the matter about which you wrote to me and in order that the report may not ... Goodbye.

Content: Polemon notifies Menches, the village secretary, of his arrival in Kerkeosiris, and tells Menches to join him to Berenikis

Context: Menches archive

Paleographic description: Regular cursive

Lines: 13 lines, on recto along the fibers.

Physical properties: Margins: top, 3.8 cm.; left, 2 cm.; bottom, 2 cm.; in top left corner, in red ink "18".

Publication status: published

Section/Side: Verso empty.

Conservation status: Slight remains of linen used in mummification on verso

Provenance: Crocodile cartonnage at Tebtunis 8.1

UC Inventory Number: 1567