Census declaration (P.Duk.inv. 971 R�)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Census declaration, [not before 215]
Author: Orsenouphis (From the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), 3rd cent.
Subject: Egypt --Census --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Recording and registration --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Landlord and tenant --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Census records --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 8 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 8.0 x 4.2 cm.
	9 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso in a different hand.
	Upper margin of 1 cm.; left margin of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 971 R was formerly P.Duk.inv. S73 5.
	Census declaration from Egypt, written on papyrus.
	Written to Aurelios Kronion by Orsenouphis from Tanis
	in the Arsinoite Nome. The declaration is made in
	answer to an edict of a former prefect and may include
	tenants. Verso has a literary text with Homer's Iliad,
	Book 1, 528-540 (P.Duk.inv. 971 V).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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