Title: Account of expenses(?), [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Ferries --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Chile saltpeter --Taxation --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Accounts --Egypt --Heracleopolite Nome --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 14 x 22 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 13.8 x 21.5 cm. 13 lines. Written across the fibers on the verso; written along the fibers on the recto in a different hand and inverse to the text on the verso. Left margin of 7.5 cm.; right margin of 4 cm. P.Duk.inv. 621 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 24 V. Extracted from mummy cartonnage. Papyrus account from the Herakleopolites (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Includes expenses for tax on natron, ferries, and more. Recto has an account of oil in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 621 R). In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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