Declaration of property (P.Duk.inv. 183)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Declaration of property, [299?]
Author: 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.
	Surveyors --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --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 glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 21.2 x 20.5 cm. or smaller.
	34 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto in two columns.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 183 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 183.
	Declaration of property from Panopolis (modern name:
	Akhmim), Egypt, written on papyrus. Declaration lists
	small holdings in various numbered plots in the Panopolite
	Nome including the Upper toparchy. Types of land
	include sown and dry land. Mentions the surveyors
	Marcus and Zoilos. Part of the archive of Ammon,
	the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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