Title: Account of payments in kind, [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Wheat --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, four joining fragments mounted in glass, incomplete ; 31 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 30.1 x 23.8 cm. 17 lines. Written across the fibers on the verso; the space to the right was reused for other texts (P.Duk.inv. 1333 V (b and c)) in different hands; written along the fibers on the recto in a different hand. Lower margin of 8.5 cm. P.Duk.inv. 1333 V (a) was extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 1318-1332 and P.Duk.inv. 1334-1371. Account of payments in kind (wheat) and in money from the Arsinoite Nome (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Gives a total as well as remaining dues. The monetary entries seem to be converted to wheat at a rate of 20 drachmas to an artab, a measure of wheat. The fist line provides a title. Recto has a register of rents and taxes in kind (P.Duk.inv. 1333 R). To the right of this text are another account of payments (P.Duk.inv. 1333 V (b)) and an account of payments in kind (P.Duk.inv. 1333 V (c)). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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