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Inventory lists

Categories of wealth:

  • commodities: (1) grain) (2) other
  • livestock
  • human resources

In the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC) economic unit, these are the three items separated for accounting, in the title type 'overseer of the estate, accountant of X'

A fourth recurrent category is transport, in the form of river boats (cargo boats).

 

Inventories of institutional holdings

Inventories of personal wealth

 


 

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