Register of unusable land (P.Duk.inv. 100 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Register of unusable land, [3rd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Waste lands --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Registers (lists) --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, thirteen joining fragments mounted
	in glass, right part is broken off ; 32 x 29 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 32 x 28.5 cm.
	39 lines.
	Written in two columns along the fibers on the recto;
	written across the fibers on the verso in a different hand.
	Upper margin of 3.5 cm.; lower margin of 2 cm.; left
	margin of 1.5 cm.  A tomos synkollesimos.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 101-102,
	P.Duk.inv. 105 and P.Duk.inv. 113-114.
	P.Duk.inv. 100 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 100 R and G 107 R.
	Register of unusable land from the Arsinoite Nome (modern
	name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Included
	is land that cannot be used for the cultivation of
	wheat, vines or garden crops. Arranged by village
	including Kerkesouchon, Psenaryo, Tanchoireos, Ptolemaidos
	Hormou and Hauereos (modern name: Hawara). The types
	of unusable land specified include: canals, dikes,
	a road, rock, hills, dry land, land under water,
	salted land, deserted bean field, ditches, water
	conduits, places where bushes have taken over, tile
	factories, highland not reached by inundation, sand,
	and dry land. Verso has an account of wheat in Greek
	(P.Duk.inv. 100 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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