Account of transportation costs (P.Duk.inv. 795 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Account of transportation costs, [not before 176]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Government property --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Wheat --Egypt --Transportation --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, numerous partly joining fragments
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 17.0 x 18.6 cm. or smaller.
	16 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the verso in a chancery
	hand; written across the fibers on the recto in a
	different hand and inverse to the text on the verso.
	Lower margin(?) of 2 cm.; left margin of 1 cm.; right
	margin of 2.5 cm.
 	P.Duk.inv. 795 V was formerly P.Rob.inv. 60 V.
	Account of transportation costs from Egypt, written
	on papyrus. Lists the expenses for transportation
	of government wheat(?). Includes sack carriers. Mentions
	Isidoros son of Isidoros. Recto has a report on the
	shipment of wheat (P.Duk.inv. 795 R).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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