Title: Account of expenses, [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Bankers --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Accounting --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Accounts --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, twenty-one partly joining fragments mounted in 11 frames of glass, incomplete. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 31.6 x 18.7 cm. or smaller. 931 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto in multiple columns; written across the fibers on the verso in multiple columns, inverse to the text on the recto. Upper margin of 1.5-2 cm.; lower margin of 1 cm. Extracted from mummy cartonnage from Abusir el-Melek. P.Duk.inv. 301 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF72 1-11. Papyrus account of daily expenses from Egypt. Possibly the account book of a banker. In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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