Account of wheat (P.Duk.inv. 80 R (b))

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150 dpi image of 80r

Catalogue Record

Title: Account of wheat, [2nd cent. B.C.]
Subject: Accounting --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Wheat --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
	Accounts --Egypt --332-30 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 22 x 9 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 21.7 x 8.8 cm.
	7 lines.
	Written over an expunged text along the fibers on the
	recto; written across the fibers on the verso in
	a different hand.
	Upper margin of 5 cm.; right margin of 2 cm.
	Extracted from mummy cartonnage.
	P.Duk.inv. 80 R (b) was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 80 R (b).
	Account of wheat from the Arsinoite Nome(?) (modern
	name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Account
	of the receipt and expenditure of wheat or an account
	of the shipment of tax wheat. Written over an expunged
	text that was an account in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 80 R (a)).
	Verso has an account of wheat in Demotic
	(P.Duk.inv. 80 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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