Tax account (P.Duk.inv. 101 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Tax account, [3rd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Taxation --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Tax collection --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Land value taxation --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Wheat --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Wine and wine making --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, twenty-eight partly joining fragments
	mounted in two frames of glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 34.5 x 27.5 cm. or smaller.
	105 lines.
	Fragments in the first frame of glass are written in
	three columns along the fibers on the recto and written
	across the fibers on the verso in a different hand,
	inverse to the text on the recto. Fragments in the
	second frame of glass are written in two columns
	along the fibers on the recto and written across
	the fibers on the verso in a different hand, inverse
	to the text on the recto.
	Upper margin of 3.5 cm.; lower margin of 1-4 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 100,
	P.Duk.inv. 102, P.Duk.inv. 105, and P.Duk.inv. 113-114.
	P.Duk.inv. 101 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 101 R, G
	103-104 R, G 106 R, G 108 R-112 R.
	Account of various taxes from the Arsinoite Nome, (modern
	name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Arranged
	by village and tax. One of the taxes is a tax on
	land. Payments are in wheat and in jars of wine(?).
	Mentions the villages Boubastos, Philoteris, and
	Polydeukeia. Verso has another tax account(?) in
	Greek (P.Duk.inv. 101 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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