papyrus;
codex
- Museum number
- EA71005,6
- Description
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Papyrus codex leaf bearing Sahidic Coptic script on both sides; 21 lines on one side, written along the fibres (recto), and 21 lines against the fibres (verso). On the verso, there are also 5 lines of Coptic text in another hand in the right hand margin (possibly glosses?). The text contains a narration of miracles attributed to Shenoute.
- Production date
- 7thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 23 centimetres (frame)
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Height: 20.20 centimetres (papyrus)
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Weight: 643 grammes (Mounted in sandwiched glass)
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Width: 18.60 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 14.20 centimetres (papyrus)
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Depth: 0.75 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published in:
Regulski, I. (ed.), 2022. Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt, p. 22
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A collection of 7 sheets from a Codex of the Life of Shenoute (EA 71005,1-71005,7), 36 sheets of Coptic papyri (EA 79673-79708) and 13 other Coptic fragments (EA 76415, EA 76565-76576) was acquired in 1935 from Rutter & Marchant and Co., Sollicitors. They had come many years earlier from the estate of a certain John Lee (died in 1866), along with 13 other Coptic fragments and had been kept in their offices for decades. The company donated the collection to the Museum.
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Based on similaries with episodes in the Life of Shenoute, Birger Pearson attributed the work to the vita tradition (1989). In their edition, Behlmer and Alcock (1996) identify the narrative as a pseudepigraphic discourse of Shenoute; see Emmel 2004, for the identification of the beginning of a work of Shenoute, You Know, O Brethren.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2022-2023 13 Oct-19 Feb, London, BM, Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus
Black ink
Checked for loan USA 1989
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: Filmoplast T tape
Object Priority: A
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: B
Curatorial condition comment:
incomplete/fragmentary
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Life of Shenoute
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA71005,6
- Registration number
- 1988,0218.1.6
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Page 11-12
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Miscellaneous number: Tattam nos 3-4