Lease of land (P.Duk.inv. 710)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Lease of land, Year 27 Tybi 25 [154 B.C. Feb. 22]
Subject: Measuring instruments --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Leases --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, three joining fragments mounted in
	glass ; 9 x 20 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 8.3 x 20.0 cm.
	17 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso.
	Small upper margin; lower margin of 3 cm; left margin
	of 0.5 cm; small right margin.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 707-709.
	P.Duk.inv. 710 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 50.
	Papyrus lease of land from the Arsinoites (modern name:
	Fayyum), Egypt. The inside of a "double" document
	of a six-witness contract of lease between  Ptolemaios
	and Herakleos. Dated to Panemou 27 and Tybi 25, year
	27 (February 22, 154 B.C.). One of the stipulations
	mentions a four-choinix measure, a measure of approximately
	four liters.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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