Title: Account, [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Barley --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Ships --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Scribes --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Police --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Leases --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Egypt --Officials and employees --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Accounts --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, seven fragments mounted in seven frames of glass, incomplete. Note: Dimensions of fragments are 18.3 x 24.0 cm. or smaller. 211 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto; written across the fibers on the verso of most fragments. The third fragment (P.Duk.inv. 705 3/7) has writing on the verso in a different hand. The fifth fragment (P.Duk.inv. 705 5/7) has mirror images of two lines on the verso. Some fragments are written in several columns. Margins on fragments vary. Extracted from mummy cartonnage. P.Duk.inv. 705 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 32-38. Papyrus account from the Arsinoites (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt. Account is of transactions in kind. First fragment has transactions mostly of barley, and it mentions a ship of Ptolemaios with Ammonios in command. Mentions Zephyros, a financial official. Second fragment has transactions in kind mostly of barley. It mentions a scribe and a guard. Third fragment refers to a lease. Fourth fragment has transactions in kind mostly of barley and mentions a scribe. Fifth fragment has transactions in kind mostly of barley. Mentions a ship of Anoubis and a ship from Hakoris. Sixth fragment mentions a scribe. Seventh fragment mentions desert guards and a scribe. In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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