Title: Lease(?) of land, [2nd cent. B.C.] Subject: Leases --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Land tenure --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Seeds --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Documentary papyri --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Contracts --Egypt --332-30 B.C. Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 10 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of item are 9.2 x 9.4 cm. 5 lines. Written along the fibers on the recto. Lower margin of 3.5 cm.; left margin of 3 cm. Extracted from mummy cartonnage with P.Duk.inv. 324-361 and P.Duk.inv. 363-434. P.Duk.inv. 362 was formerly P.Duk.inv. AF74 39. Papyrus contract of lease(?) of arable land from the Herakleopolites(?) (Heracleopolite Nome), Egypt. Has provisions about the supply of seed. Dated Pharmouthi 14. In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.
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