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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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