Papyrus fragment with Greek inscription
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Papyrus fragment with Greek inscription

Papyrus fragment with Greek inscription

Dimensions
5.5 × 3.9 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
56.118.A
ID
Hyp-491
Condition
Fragment.

Papyrus fragemnt from a cartonnage coffin, originally from Gamhud, Egypt. Fragments of three lines of Greek inscription are visible, preserved from the middle of the lines. Above these the end of two lines run perpendicular. Perhaps the remains of a letter address.

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