Title: Account of expenses, [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Accounting --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Wine and wine making --Egypt --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, right part is broken off. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 16.5 x 13.0 cm. or smaller. 13 lines. Written across the fibers on the verso of the first fragment; written along the fibers on the recto in a different hand. Upper margin of 2.5 cm.; lower margin of 2.5 cm.; left margin of 2 cm. 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 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 147 V and P.Duk.inv. G 151 V. Account of expenses in money from Egypt, written on papyrus. Expenses are for the month of Tybi. One of the items is a jar of wine. Mentions Herakleodoros the second and Pyrros. Recto has an account of expenses in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 147 R). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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