Account of expenses (P.Duk.inv. 147 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Account of expenses, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Olive oil --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Porridge --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Fishes --Egypt --Food --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Accounts --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, five fragments of which three join,
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 16.5 x 13.0 cm. or smaller.
	58 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso of the first fragment in
	a different hand.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.; right margin of 3 cm. on the
	first fragment; left margin of 2 cm. on the second
	fragment; right margin of 3.5 cm. on the third fragment.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 148-149,
	P.Duk.inv. 152, P.Duk.inv. 154, P.Duk.inv. 156-160,
	P.Duk.inv. 162-163, and P.Duk.inv. 165-166.
	P.Duk.inv. 147 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 147 R and G 151 R.
	Account of expenses from Egypt, written on papyrus.
	Expenses are in money for porridge, fish food, and
	olive oil. Verso has another account of expenses
	in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 147 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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