Account of five-day periods (P.Duk.inv. 957)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Account of five-day periods, [228/229]
Author: Herodes (Tax collector from Egypt), 3rd cent.
Subject: Tax collection --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Accounting --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, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 10 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 9.1 x 6.7 cm.
	12 lines.
	P.Duk.inv. 957 was written along the fibers on the recto.
	Lower margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin of 0.5 cm. A tomos synkollesimos.
	Account of five-day periods from Egypt, written on
	papyrus. Account is for one month in the eighth year
	of Severus Alexander (AD 228/229). Submitted and
	signed by Herodes, presumably a tax collector.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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