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by kilroy123 869 days ago
Isn't that what most ancient Roman texts we do have are? Tax records.
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Do we have any or any significant number of Roman tax receipts? Most Roman/Greek texts that we have had to survive until ~1000 AD. If a text was available back then there is a reasonably good chance that we have it (or rather a medieval copy of it), why would anyone waste time copying tax receipts though?