Daily account of rent and tax payments in kind (P.Duk.inv. 1318 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Daily account of rent and tax payments in kind, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Rent --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Taxation --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Tax collection --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Temple lands --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Crown lands --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Gods, Egyptian --332-30 B.C.
	Tenant farmers --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Accounts --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in 7 frames of glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 23.3 x 12.7 cm. or smaller.
	130 lines.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 1319-1371.
	P.Duk.inv. 1318 R was written along the fibers on the
	recto; written across the fibers on the verso in
	a different hand.
	Account of payments of rents and taxes in kind from
	the Arsinoite Nome (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt,
	written on papyrus. Payments are made by tenants
	of state and temple land, including land owned by
	the great gods Osorsouchos and Phemroeris. Notes
	remaining dues. Receipts for each day are added up.
	Has payments for land survey tax, administrative
	costs (scribes' fees), tax for winnowing, a one twenty-fourth
	tax, tax for having an account at the granary, and
	tax for granary guards. Verso has a register of land and
	rents in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1318 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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