Tax account (P.Duk.inv. 720)


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Catalogue Record

Title: Tax account, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Taxation --Egypt --Lists --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Accounts --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, 7 fragments mounted in 5 frames of
	glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 11.7 x 31.3 cm. or smaller.
	154 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written also
	across the fibers on the recto of the first framed
	fragment; written across the fibers on the verso
	on the first three fragments; written also along
	the fibers on the verso of the first framed fragment.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 721-727.
	P.Duk.inv. 720 was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 62-66.
	Papyrus tax account from the Arsinoites (modern name:
	Fayyum), Egypt. The third and fourth framed fragments
	have a tax list arranged by villages.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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