papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10449
- Description
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Papyrus written with black ink with demotic legal text (divorce) on recto.
The text records the divorce of Pati[pa]rewy from his wife Takhet[-...], and is dated to 'year 31, first month of the season of Achet under Pharaoh Darius (I)' (24 Dec.-23 Jan. 492-1 BC).
Thompson's MS Catalogue: "recto 8 ll. verso pasted down. [...] Scribe. Horuz son of Nes-Hor-pechrat".
- Regnal date
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31 (Thoth)
- Production date
- 491BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 35 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 25 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
legal
- Curator's comments
- To be included in the 'Musee achemenide virtuel et interactif' (see www.achemenet.com)
Published:
J. Curtis and N. Tallis (eds.), Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia, London 2005, p. 199 [315]
Published:
Cruz-Uribe in Fs Lüddeckens, 43-46.
Cf. entry in www.trismegistos.org - DAHT.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 7 Mar-11 Jun, Barcelona, Fundacion La Caixa, 'L'imperi Oblidat'
2005-2006 Sept-Jan, London, BM, 'Forgotten Empire'
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus
Black ink
Checked for temporary exhibition Room 5 2005
Checked for loan to Spain 2006
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: magic tape
Binding: copydex self adhesive carpet tape
Object Priority: A
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: A
Curatorial condition comment:
fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1883 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- Appears in Herbert Thompson, Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum (1883) [MS in Dept. Archive].
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10449
- Registration number
- .10449
