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papyrus

• Object type

  • papyrus

• Museum number

  EA10139

• Description

  Papyrus(fragment); Greek(?) text. Mounted with 10128, 10131-4, 10136-8.

• Culture/period

  • Coptic

• Findspot

  • Excavated/Findspot: Asyut, tomb (vicinity)
  • (Africa,Egypt,Middle Egypt,Asyut)

• Materials

  • papyrus

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      inscription

    • Inscription Language

      Greek(?)

• Curator's comments

  Register says 'Found in some tombs in the hills behind Assiut'

• Condition

  fair (incomplete)

• Conservation

  See treatments 

  Treatment date

  18 October 2002

  Treatment proposal

  Remove papyri from old backings, repair, remount.

  Condition

  The fragment is mounted in a frame with 25 other fragments, some of which are adhered to cream backing paper and some inlaid, and all contained between a glass sandwich bound with linen tape. Several of the fragments have seals on them and so a spacer has been inserted inside the glass edges to avoid the pressure from the glass. Generally these seals, which rarely survive, are made from unbaked clay and are friable and insecurely attached to the papyrus. All the fragments have evidence of insect attack in the form of holes and/or surface damage. All those which have been inlaid into the backing paper are very fractured and cockled because they are unsupported by either backing or glass. This fragment is inlaid into the backing paper.

  Treatment details

  Examined under magnification and lightly surface cleaned where possible with a soft brush. PRELIMINARY TESTS; Tested for solubility of inks, on both sides, with IMS and water (1:1), the inks were not soluble. Removed paper inlay with tweezers and realigned fragment after applying blotters damped with IMS and water (1:1) to inlaid side under weighted glass. Repaired with Japanese paper tabs [pre-toned with Aquarell watercolours] using Abra starch (wheat starch) paste. Mounted between glass with 10128, 10131-4, 10136 and 10137.

  About these records 

• Acquisition name

  • Donated by: Rev Dr Gulian Lansing

• Acquisition date

  1887

• Department

  Ancient Egypt & Sudan

• BM/Big number

  EA10139

• Registration number

  1887,0514.13