Tax receipt in Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 455 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Tax receipt, [not before 600]
Author: Phoibammon (From Egypt), 7th/8th cent.
Subject: Poll tax --Egypt --640-1250.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --640-1250.
	Receipts --Egypt --640-1250.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass ; 8 x 10 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 7.3 x 9.9 cm.
	4 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the verso; written across
	the fibers on the recto in a different hand.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; lower margin of 1.5 cm.; left
	margin of 0.5 cm.; right margin of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 455 V was formerly P.Miss. 21 V.
	Papyrus receipt from Egypt for diagraphon tax (capitation
	or money tax). Issued by Phoibammon to Kosma. Dated
	to a 7th indiction. Recto has private letter in Coptic
	(P.Duk.inv. 455 R).
	In Coptic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.    
Publications: Nikolaos Gonis, "Two Poll-Tax Receipts from Early
        Islamic Egypt," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
        131 (2000) 150-4.

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