papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10520,1
- Description
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Papyrus written with black ink with demotic text on recto and verso.
Thompson's MS Catalogue: "Mounted in eleven unnumbered frames. Provenance ? Writing. various hands and periods. several columns on both recto & verso. Contents. Frame (A). recto 5 cols. & vestiges of a previous one. a land register. verso. 21 cols. prob. a summing up of the totals of aruras on the recto. Frame (B). recto. 9 cols. list of inhabitants of houses(?). verso. 9 cols. (rougher hand). list mainly of parts of the body - often repeated. [...] list of a butcher - possibly distribution to temple officials of sacrificial animals. Frame (C). recto. 5 cols. arithmetical problems. Frame (E). recto 7 cols. list of names. cols. 1 & 2 [...] male - the rest appar. female. verso. 5 cols. accounts. Frame (F). recto 5 fragments, joined but not belonging (two mounted upside down). fragt. no. 2 - part of land register headed "The island of Pnesh year 21". etc. Date. early Roman(?). Origin. perhaps Memphis".
- Dimensions
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Length: 61 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 30.50 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
A. Imhausen, Mathematics in Ancient Egypt. A Contextual History (Princeton and Oxford 2016), 185-188, 193.
Cf. entry in www.trismegistos.org - DAHT.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: stained, loss, fractured, deposit
Black ink
Tabbed: kraft paper
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: cloth
Object Priority: B
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: C
Curatorial condition comment:
fair (incomplete)
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10520,1
- Registration number
- .10520.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.1