Account (P.Duk.inv. 704)

Images

150 dpi image of 704

Catalogue Record

Title: Account, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Police --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Scribes --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Sowing --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Accounts --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 19 x 33 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 18.8 x 32.9 cm.
	36 lines.
	Written in three columns along the fibers on the recto.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; lower margin of 2 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 699-703.
	P.Duk.inv. 704 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 31.
	Papyrus account from the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum),
	Egypt. Has payments in money. Has entries for guards
	(police), for a scribe of tenant farmers, for debts,
	and for sowing.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

Images and texts on these web pages are intended for research and educational use only. Please read our statement on use and reproduction for further information on how to receive permission to reproduce an item and how to cite it.

If you are interested in the techniques used to create the images (compression, color correction, resolution), please see the document on imaging techniques. If you are interested in the methodology used to create the catalogue record, please see the article on the papyrus catalogue records.

Return to the papyrus home page

Return to Duke University Special Collections Library home page

Please see our page with contact information if you have any comments or questions about the Duke Papyrus Archive.