Account of money taxes (P.Duk.inv. 646 R)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Account of money taxes, [1--]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Public lands --Taxation --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Tax collection --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Taxation --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Accounts --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, two fragments which do not join,
	cut to size by the dealer, mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 11.0 x 9.2 cm. or smaller.
	71 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso in a different hand and inverse
	to the text on the recto.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm. on the second fragment; lower
	margin of 1 cm. on the first fragment.
	P.Duk.inv. 646 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF74 49 R.
	Papyrus account of tax payments in money from Egypt.
	Tax payments are mostly by people with Roman names
	and sometimes by heirs of such people. Lists tax
	categories such as dioikesis, taxes on state land,
	and ousiaka, taxes on imperial estates. Verso has
	an account of taxes(?) in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 646 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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