papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10825
- Description
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Eight papyrus fragments of varying sizes containing a Greek land register on recto and a Greek-Coptic glossary to Minor Prophets Hosea and Amos on verso.
- Production date
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3rdC(late)-4thC(early) (? glossary)
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2ndC (mid)-2ndC (late) (? land register)
- Dimensions
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Height: 29.20 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 25.60 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Oxyrhynchite provenance and mid- to late-2nd c. date argued in Benaissa 2016.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: bloom, displaced fragments, fractured, frayed, loss, salt precipiate
Black ink
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: leather
Object Priority: B
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: B
Curatorial condition comment:
fair (incomplete - fragmentary)
- Acquisition date
- 1971
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
Purchased by BM in 1924 "from a dealer" (Bell and Thompson 1925, 241).
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10825
- Registration number
- 1971,0219.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: MSS 2584
