Tax receipt in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 498 V)

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150 dpi image of 498v

Catalogue Record

Title: Tax receipt, [not before 500]
Author: Victor (Tax official from Egypt), 6th/7th cent.
Subject: Poll tax --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Tax collection --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Receipts --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass ; 8 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 7.2 x 7.4 cm.
	6 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the verso, the signature
	of Victor in an unexperienced hand; written along
	the fibers on the recto in a different hand.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; lower margin of 0.5 cm.; left
	margin of 0.5 cm.; small right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 498 V was formerly P.Miss. 64 V.
	Papyrus receipt of money tax payment from Egypt. Made
	by Victor, for the payment of the andrismos tax (capitation
	tax) for the ninth indiction by Victor, son of Psour-.
	Recto has a protocol in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 498 R).
	In Greek.
	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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