Title: Account of taxes in kind, [1st cent.] Subject: Accounting --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Taxation --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Wheat --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Accounts --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Material: 1 item : papyrus, two joining fragments mounted in glass, very incomplete ; 13 x 6 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 12.8 x 5.3 cm. 7 lines. Written across the fibers on the verso in two columns; written along the fibers on the recto in a different hand and inverse to the text on the verso. Large lower margin. P.Duk.inv. 479 V was formerly P.Miss. 45 V. Papyrus account from Egypt with payments of wheat for tax purposes. Recto has an account of money taxes(?) in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 479 R). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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