The caption reads- Turkish tax receipt for Christian subjects. It is from an illustration of a papyrus in the collection of the Archduke Rainier in Vienna, Archduke Rainer (1827-1913) was an Austrian nobleman, some time Prime Minister of Austria. He is notable for his collection of Egyptological items. In particular his collection of papyri is supposedly the largest known. He donated it to the national collection in Vienna in 1899. It includes Arabic papyri, and shows the process of transition in documents in Egypt from papyrus to paper

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