Title: Register of rents and taxes in kind, [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Rent --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Taxation --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Tenant farmers --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Crown lands --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Registers (lists) --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, five fragments mounted in three frames of glass, incomplete. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 21.1 x 12.2 cm. or smaller. 20 lines. Written across the fibers on the verso; written along the fibers on the recto in a different hand. P.Duk.inv. 1331 V was extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 1318-1330 and P.Duk.inv.1332-1371. List of rents and taxes in kind (wheat and barley) from the Arsinoite Nome (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. The register is arranged alphabetically by tenant of state land. Lists the amounts due as well as actual payments made in the months Payni and Epeiph. Notes remaining dues. Includes a winnowing tax. This section covers alpha. Recto has a register of rents and taxes(?) in kind in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1331 R). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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