Census declaration (P.Duk.inv. 985 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Census declaration, [2--]
Subject: Recording and registration --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Egypt --Census --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, two fragments which do not join,
	mounted in glass, incomplete.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 5.9 x 5.5 cm. or smaller.
	14 lines.
	P.Duk.inv. 985 V was written across the fibers on the
	verso; written along the fibers on the recto in a
	different hand.
	Lower margin of 2.5 cm. on the second fragment.
	Census declaration from Egypt, written on papyrus.
	Mentions Tbesis (someone's mother), Tbesis (age 7),
 	Tarechatis, Psenophois, Tereus (someone's mother)
	and Patesonthis. One of these people owns a fourth
	of a house(?). Recto has a contract in Greek
	(P.Duk.inv. 985 R).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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