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Title: Tax receipt for sacrificial calf
Creator: Apion (Nomarch of the Arsinoite Nome)
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Tebtunis Papyri
Rights Information: FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited: Direct requests for copies or permission to publish to the Rare Books Curator, The Bancroft Library.
Description: 1 column, 9 lines, written on recto along the fibers.
Small regular cursive.
Margins: top, 1.3 cm.; left, 1.1 cm.; bottom, 2.8 cm.
Verso empty.
Receipt of payment for the tax upon a calf offered in sacrifice made by the priests of Tebtunis, Egypt, to Apion (Nomarch of the Arsinoite Nome). The text is dated to the 16th year of Septimius and Caracalla, the 30th of the Egyptian month Tybi (Jan. 26, 208)
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Documentary papyri
Receipts
Extent: 1 item papyrus, complete 10.2 x 8.1 cm. cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00099
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Egypt--Religion--332 B.C.-640 A.D
Tebtunis (Extinct city)--Religion
Documentary papyri
Receipts
Place: Egypt
Religion
332 B.C.-640 A.D
Tebtunis (Extinct city)

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