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papyrus
Object Type
papyrus
Museum number
EA10727
Description
Papyrus with Demotic text written on both sides (5 lines on recto 16 on verso).
Cultures/periods
Ptolemaic
Production date
181BC
(Year 24, Ptolemy 5)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Thebes (historic - Upper Egypt)
Materials
papyrus
Dimensions
Height:
30 centimetres
Width:
94.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See also 1938,1112.1
Bibliographic references
Andrews 1990a / Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum IV: Ptolemaic Legal Texts from the Theban Area
(p.39-40, pl.23, 26-7)
Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources
(8514)
(http://www.trismegistos.org/text/8514)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: brittle, fractured, stained Black ink (faint) Tabbed: kraft paper Mount Details: Sandwich: glass (warped) Binding: cloth, masking tape (temporary) Object Priority: B Mount Priority: B Overall Condition: B Curatorial condition comment: incomplete - beginning of lines 2-5 missing
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Timon
Named in inscription:
Apollonius
(son of)
Named in inscription:
Amenhotep
Named in inscription:
Harsiese
(son of)
Named in inscription:
Pabis
Associated places
Named in inscription:
Thebes (historic - Upper Egypt)
, house
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Abemayor Brothers
Acquisition date
1939
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA10727
Registration number
1939,0513.1
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
P.Brit.Mus. IV 9