Register of declarations of livestock (P.Duk.inv. 620 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Register of declarations of livestock, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Livestock --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Poll tax --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Tax returns --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Personal property --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Herders --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
	Registers (lists) --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, four fragments of which three join,
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 20.3 x 8.1 cm. or smaller.
	34 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto in a careful
	hand; written across the fibers on the verso in a
	different hand and inverse to the text on the recto.
	Upper margin on the larger fragment of 2 cm.; lower
	margin on the smaller fragment of 3 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 620 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 23 R.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	Papyrus register of copies of declarations of sheep
	and goats from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite
	Nome), Egypt. Includes their herdsmen. Declarations
	are made for the salt tax, a poll tax, and another
	tax. Verso has a declaration of livestock(?) in Greek
	(P.Duk.inv. 620 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
Publications: Van Minnen, Peter. "Taking Stock: Declarations
	of Property from the Ptolemaic Period." Bulletin
	of the American Society of Papyrologists 31(1994):
	89-99 (plate 21).See also SB XXII 15370.

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