Account of expenses (P.Duk.inv. 117)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Account of expenses, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Scribes --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Priests --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Ibis --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Accounts --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, forty-five partly joining fragments
	mounted in three frames of glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 32.2 x 34.5 cm. or smaller.
	310 lines.
	The fragments in the first frame of glass are written
	in three columns along the fibers on the recto and
	have a blot of ink on the verso. The fragments in
	the second frame of glass are written in two columns
	along the fibers on the recto and have one jotting
	written across the fibers on the verso. The first
	two fragments in the third frame of glass are written
	along the fibers in two columns.
	The fragments in the first frame of glass have an upper
	margin of 1.5 cm. and a small right margin. The fragments
	in the second frame of glass have an upper margin
	of 1 cm. and a  lower margin of 1 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 118-119.
	P.Duk.inv. 117 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 117-119.
	Account of expenses in money from Egypt, written on
	papyrus. On the fragment in the first frame of glass,
	the expenses are partly for feeding sacred ibises
	and for priests. Among those mentioned are Peteesis,
	Marres, a scribe, Phileas, Dionysios, Antaios and
	Sosibios. The fragments in the second frame of glass
	mention Hermophilos, Kriton, Phileas son of Dionysios,
	Alkimos and Philistas, Ares, Euboulos and Timaios,
	Demetrios and Dionysios. The fragments in the third
	frame of glass mention Hekataios and Hermophilos.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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