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Account of fish [3rd cent. B.C.]

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Accession: P.Duk.inv. 115 V
Period: 299 BCE – 200 BCE
Date: 299 BCE – 200 BCE
Date range: 299 BCE – 200 BCE
Materials: ['1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete']
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Daily account of expenses from Egypt, written on papyrus. Expenses are for fish including alabes and korakinos which are species of fish from the Nile (scientific name of the latter Coracinus). Mentions also pickeled fish and other fish as food. Recto has a documentary text in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 115 R)

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