Title: Draft of a petition(?), [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Taxation --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Complaints (Civil procedure) --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Petitions --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 18 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 17.8 x 9.6 cm. 19 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto; written across the fibers on the verso in the same hand. Upper margin of 2.5 cm.; right margin of 2 cm. Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 302-309 and P.Duk.inv. 312. P.Duk.inv. 310 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF72 20 R. Draft of a petition(?) on papyrus from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Petition relates to taxation(?). Corrections and interlinear additions occur. Verso has an account of taxes in kind (P.Duk.inv. 310 V). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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