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Parchment bearing a promise made by the King of Blemios to a priest
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Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0524

CGCatalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du musée du Caire
A series of scholarly publications, which groups objects by subject in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. 10761
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 2051

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Parchment bearing a promise made by the King of Blemios to a priest

Category:

Written documents, manuscripts, parchments

Date:

Byzantine Period, 5th - 6th Cent. CE

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Qena, Nag' El-Gherira (Gabalein/Gebelein)

Material(s):

Organic material, animal product, parchment

Length:

6.5 cm;

Width:

4.3 cm

Hall:

Islamic Antiquities, showcase M3

The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References

Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire: nos 10001-10869: Greek Papyri, vol. 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903): 94.
Jules Baillet, “Sur plusieurs textes grecs récemment découverts, relatifs à l'histoire des Blémyes”, Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 32, no. 4 (1888): 326-336.
J. Krall, “Beiträge zur Geschichte der Blemyer und Nubier, no. 2”, Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-Historische Classe 46, no. 4 (1898).
Service des Antiquités de L'Egypte, Notice des principaux monuments exposés au Musée de Gizeh (Cairo: Imprimerie Nationale, 1895): 115, no. 349.

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