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. Temple lands --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Crown lands --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Wheat --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Barley --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, four joining fragments mounted in glass, incomplete ; 31 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 30.1 x 23.8 cm. 45 lines. Written in three columns along the fibers on the recto; written across the fibers on the verso in a different hand. Lower margin of 4 cm. P.Duk.inv. 1333 R was extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 1318-1332 and P.Duk.inv. 1334-1371. List of rents and taxes(?) in kind (wheat and barley) from the Arsinoite Nome (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Rent and taxes are paid by tenants of state and temple land and/or by their subtenants on their behalf. One entrepreneur, Syrion son of Rhodon, has five such tenants. Verso has accounts of payments in kind in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1333 V (a), P.Duk.inv. 1333 V (b), and P.Duk.inv. 1333 V (c)). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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