Title: Register of land, [3rd cent. B.C.] Subject: Landowners --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Land use --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Choral conductors --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Registers (lists) --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, nine fragments of which seven join, mounted in glass, incomplete. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 27.9 x 33.1 cm. or smaller. 26 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto; written across the fibers on the verso in a different hand. Upper margin of 3.5 cm. P.Duk.inv. 276 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. E 2 R. Extracted from mummy cartonnage. Register of land from Egypt, written on papyrus. Land is registered according to owner. Among the owners are Petosiris and a choir master. Verso has a register of land in Demotic (P.Duk.inv. 276 V). In Demotic. Descriptive database available in repository.
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