Requisitions from Upper Egyptian Temples (P.Bm 10401)

Abstract

First publication, with full commentary, of P. BM 10401, which comes from Thebes and probably dates to the late Twentieth Dynasty. It lists metals, garments, cattle, vegetable and other commodities collected from temples and priests between Elephantine and Esna by the ‘Chief Taxing-Master’. Although it is not clear where the goods were taken, nor what they represent, various possibilities are considered in the context of what is known from other New Kingdom sources.