Daily account of money taxes (P.Duk.inv. 590)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Daily account of money taxes, [154 B.C.? or 143 B.C.?]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Taxation --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Tax collection --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Accounts --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 8 x 12 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 7.9 x 11.5 cm.
	13 lines.
	Written in two columns along the fibers in the same
	hand as P.Duk.inv. 589.
	Lower margin of 1.5-2.5 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 588-589
	and 591-597.
	P.Duk.inv. 590 was formerly P.Duk.inv. 71 3.
	Papyrus daily account of money taxes from the Arsinoites(?)
	(modern name: Fayyum), Egypt. Mentions Thoth. Dates
	might be in year 28 (154/153 B.C. or 143/142 B.C.)
	as P.Duk.inv. 589.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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