Papyrus fragment with Greek inscription

Culture

Graeco-Egyptian (culture)

Dimensions

11.8 × 6.2 cm

Period

Ptolemaic period (323–30)

Material

papyrus

Inscription

Greek (language)

Production place

Gamhud?

Findspot

Gamhud ; burial

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Back, Fülöp (1862–1958); Budapest, Hungarian National Museum

Inventory

56.93.A

Hyp-466

Condition

Fragment.

Papyrus fragment from a cartonnage coffin, originally from Gamhud, Egypt. Upper right corner. Fragments of three lines are visible, the last line is illegible.

Recto

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