Account of wheat (P.Duk.inv. 1329 R)

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150 dpi image of 1329r

Catalogue Record

Title: Account of wheat, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Wheat --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Pillage --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, three joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 11 x 26 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 10.5 x 25.3 cm.
	10 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto in two columns.
	Lower margin of 2.5 cm.; left margin of 2.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 1329 R was extracted from mummy cartonnage
	with P.Duk.inv. 1318-1328 and P.Duk.inv. 1330-1371.
	Account of wheat from the Arsinoite Nome (modern name:
	Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Includes totals.
	Enemy forces, perhaps during the Seleucid invasion,
	have stolen 845.67 artabas (a dry measure) including
	39.33 artabas of seed. Verso has an account of payments
	in kind(?) in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1329 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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