Report on inundated land (P.Duk.inv. 1338 V (b))

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Catalogue Record

Title: Report on inundated land, [between 148 and 137 B.C.]
Subject: Scribes --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Agriculture --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Irrigation --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 glass, incomplete ; 11 x 17 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 10.3 x 16.2 cm.
	6 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the verso to the right
	of another text (P.Duk.inv. 1338 V (a)) in a different
	hand; written along the fibers on the recto in a
	different hand.
	Upper margin of 2.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 1338 V (b) was extracted from mummy cartonnage
	with P.Duk.inv. 1318-1337 and P.Duk.inv. 1339-1371.
	Report on inundated land from the Arsinoite Nome (modern
	name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Report
	from a village scribe about land inundated and sown
	until a date in Hathyr of year 34 (December, 148
	or 137 B.C.). On the left is a documentary text in
	Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1338 V (a)) and on the recto is
	an account(?) in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1338 R).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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