Tax account(?) (P.Duk.inv. 721 R)

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150 dpi image of 721r

Catalogue Record

Title: Tax account(?), [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --Fayyum --332-30 B.C.
	Taxation --Egypt --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, top part is broken
	off ; 20 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 19.2 x 14.6 cm.
	18 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso in a different hand.
	Lower margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin of 2.5 cm.; right
	margin of 2 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 720
	and P.Duk.inv. 722-727.
	P.Duk.inv. 721 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. MF79 67 R.
	Papyrus account of taxes(?) from the Arsinoites (modern
	name: Fayyum), Egypt. Verso has a draft of a petition
	in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 721 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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