Title: Declaration of property, Year 20 of Diocletian (303) Author: Aurelia Senpetechensis (Daughter of Petechensis from Panopolis, Egypt), fl. 303. Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348 Subject: Real property tax --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Recording and registration --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Landowners --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Priests --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Surveyors --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Documentary papyri --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Tax returns --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Material: 1 item : papyrus, reconstructed from numerous fragments, mounted in one of three glass frames. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 12.2 x 73.5 cm. or smaller. 31 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto; written along the fibers on the verso in a different hand. Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margin of 2 cm.; left margin of 2.5 cm; right margin of 0.5 cm. P.Duk.inv. 182 R (e) was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 183 R (a). Declaration on oath from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Written by Aurelia Senpetechensis, daughter of Petechensis, through her husband Aurelius Petearbeschinis son of Horos and priest of the Panopolite Nome, to Aurelius Markos and Aurelius Zoilos, surveyors of the Panopolite Nome. Declaration lists holdings of land (sown and dry) in various numbered plots in the Panopolite Nome in accordance with an imperial edict. Dated to the eighth consulate of Diocletian and the seventh consulate of Maximian as well as year 20 of Diocletian (AD 303). Part of the archive of Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer. Verso has another declaration of property in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 182 V). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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