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. Temple lands --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Registers (lists) --Egypt --Fayyum y 332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 25 x 30 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 25.0 x 30.0 cm. 35 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto in three columns; written across the fibers on the verso in a different hand. Lower margins of 5 cm. on the first and third columns; second column has a lower margin of 9 cm. P.Duk.inv. 1334 R was extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 1318-1333 and P.Duk.inv. 1335-1371. List of rents and taxes in kind (wheat and barley) from the Arsinoite Nome (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. The rents and taxes were paid by tenants of state and temple land and/or by their subtenants. The tenants include a great god. Totals and remaining dues are listed at the end of the second column. Verso has an account of payments in kind (P.Duk.inv. 1334 V (a)), another account of payments in kind (P.Duk.inv. 1334 V (b)), and an account of taxes in money(?) (P.Duk.inv. 1334 V (c)). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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