Official memorandum (P.Duk.inv. 690)

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Title: Official memorandum, Year 13 Pachon 19 [192 B.C. June 25]
Author: Apollonios, (Official from the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), fl. 192 B.C.
Subject: Poseidonios (From the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), fl. 192 B.C.
	Vineyards --Taxation --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Memorandums --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 32 x 8 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 31.5 x 7.6 cm.
	27 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written along
	the fibers on the verso.
	Upper margin of 3 cm.; lower margin of 5.5 cm.; left
	margin of 1 cm.; right margin of 1 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 678-689.
	P.Duk.inv. 690 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 17.
	Papyrus memorandum from the Arsinoites (modern name:
	Fayyum), Egypt. Apollonios instructs Poseidonios
	to receive a certain amount of money from Psenesis,
	son of Paous, as the equivalent of one jar of tax
	on his vineyard near Psinachis in the Themistou subdivision.
	The vineyard measures 0.1875 aroura, a land measurement.
	Mentions an order by Spartakos(?), the well-known
	epimeletes or financial official. Dated to Pachon
	19, year 13 (June 25, 192 B.C.).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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