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Fragment of the play Orestes by Euripides (P.oxy 1178)
© BA Antiquities Museum/C. Gerigk

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0552

JEJournal d'Entrée du Musée Égyptien du Caire
The numbering system and accession log created by the French, which has been used most consistently throughout the Egyptian Museum’s history. It is a continuous, sequential numbering system. 47445
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 1003
P.Oxy.Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa) Papyri
1178

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Fragment of the play Orestes by Euripides (P.oxy 1178)

Category:

Written documents, manuscripts, papyri

Date:

Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE-395 CE)

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Minya, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus)

Material(s):

Organic material, fiber (from plants/animals), papyrus

Length:

11.8 cm;

Width:

8.9 cm

Hall:

Islamic Antiquities, showcase M3

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

References

Arthur S. Hunt, ed., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 9, Egypt Exploration Fund (London: The Office of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1912): 202.

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