Title: Account of payments in kind, [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Beans --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Barley --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, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 11 x 16 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 10.8 x 15.5 cm. 14 lines. Written in two columns across the fibers on the verso. Upper margins of 2.5 cm. P.Duk.inv. 1339 V was extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 1318-1338 and P.Duk.inv. 1340-1371. Account of payments in kind (including barley and Egyptian beans) from the Arsinoite Nome (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Gives a total for the payment of Egyptian beans in advance. Has day-to-day entries. Recto has a daily account of payments in kind (P.Duk.inv. 1339 R). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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