Official memorandum (P.Duk.inv. 608 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Official memorandum, [not before 151 B.C.]
Subject: Land value taxation --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Wine and wine making --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Waste lands --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --Correspondence --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Memorandums --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, six joining fragments mounted in
	glass, incomplete ; 16 x 29 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 15.9 x 28.6 cm.
	19 lines.
	Written in two columns across the fibers on the verso;
	written along the fibers on the recto in a different hand.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.; lower margin of 1 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 608 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 11 V.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Papyrus memorandum from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt.  Relates to taxation on various kinds
	of land. Mentions Imouthes and Philoxenos in the
	first column relating to wine. Mentions the dealers
	in condiments of Heracleopolis Magna in the second
	column relating to unusable land. Recto has an official
	letter in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 608 R).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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