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

• Documented for temple estates
• Implicit in records for other institutions

Inventories of personal wealth

• 'Lists of items taken in levy' - title of commodity lists among Lahun papyri UC 32179, UC 32183
• 'Household listings' - title of documents recording members of household, Lahun UC 32163-6
• Palermo Stone and related fragments: stone version of annals refering to census
  

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