Account of expenses (P.Duk.inv. 736 V)

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150 dpi image of 736v

Catalogue Record

Title: Account of expenses, [between 48? and 99]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Building --Estimates --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Carpenters --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Plasterers --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Wages --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Accounts --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, three fragments of which two join.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 34.3 x 11.3 cm. or smaller.
	51 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the verso in three different
	hands; written along the fibers on the recto in yet
	another hand.
	Upper margin of 2 cm.; lower margin of 5.5 cm.; no
	margins on the smaller piece.
	P.Duk.inv. 736 V was formerly P.Duk.inv. LK76 9 V.
	Papyrus accounts of expenses from Egypt. Various accounts
	of expenses, one for a construction project, which
	mentions someone who saws, a plasterer, beams and
	wages. Dates on the others are year 22 (of Tiberius?)
	and year 8 (if Claudius, the year would be A.D. 47/48).
	Recto has an account of expenses in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 736 R).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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