Report on rents and taxes in kind (P.Duk.inv. 1332)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Report on rents and taxes in kind, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Author: Onnophris, (Village scribe of Oxyrhyncha, Egypt), 2nd cent. B.C.
Subject: Taxation --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Rent --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Scribes --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Wheat --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Official reports --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in two frames of glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 23.3 x 13.9 cm. or smaller.
	19 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; traces of ink
	on the recto.
	Upper margin of 5.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 1332 was extracted from mummy cartonnage
	with P.Duk.inv. 1318-1331 and P.Duk.inv. 1333-1371.
	Report on rents and taxes in kind from the Arsinoite
	Nome (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus.
	Report from Onnophris, village scribe of Oxyrhyncha
	about the total rents and taxes in kind paid by the
	village. The total was well over 10,000 artabas (a
	dry measure) of wheat and some sesame. Onnophris
	also specifies which amounts of land are leased at
	which rate of rent. Report is perhaps for the year
	34 (148/147 or 137/136 B.C.)
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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