Account of income from estates (P.Duk.inv. 199)

Images

150 dpi image of 199

Catalogue Record

Title: Account of income from estates, [3--]
Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Farm rents --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Farm tenancy --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Landlord and tenant --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Wheat --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Legumes --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Olive --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Wells --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Accounts --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 13.5 x 15.5 cm. or smaller.
	22 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto in Ammon's hand.
	Lower margin of 2 cm.; left margin of 2 cm.; right
	margin of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 199 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 199.
	Account of income from various estates (Tchas and Piaonptau)
	in the Panopolite Nome (modern name: Akhmim), Egypt.
	Mentions rent payments for several plots in wheat,
	lentils, other pulse and wild chickling. Uses various
	measures, mostly for rent payments in kind (apparently
	numbered) and a wooden measure. Mentions also an
	olive orchard, a well and a palm grove with olive
	trees. Papyrus belongs to the archive of Ammon, the
	well-known scholastikos, or lawyer.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

Images and texts on these web pages are intended for research and educational use only. Please read our statement on use and reproduction for further information on how to receive permission to reproduce an item and how to cite it.

If you are interested in the techniques used to create the images (compression, color correction, resolution), please see the document on imaging techniques. If you are interested in the methodology used to create the catalogue record, please see the article on the papyrus catalogue records.

Return to the papyrus home page

Return to Duke University Special Collections Library home page

Please see our page with contact information if you have any comments or questions about the Duke Papyrus Archive.