Papyrus fragment with Greek inscription
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Papyrus fragment with Greek inscription

Papyrus fragment with Greek inscription

Culture
Graeco-Egyptian (culture)
Dimensions
5.8 × 3.3 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
56.111.A
ID
Hyp-484
Condition
Fragment.

Papyrus fragment from a cartonnage coffin, originally from Gamhud, Egypt. The edges of two columns of a Greek inscription are visible on the papyrus, with the beginning and the end of two lines.

 

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