Collection Highlights

Send to a friend

Fragment of the play Misoumenos by Menander (P.oxy 1605)
© BA Antiquities Museum/C. Gerigk

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0560

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. 47497
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 1055
P.Oxy.Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa) Papyri
1605

where to find

showcase M4

Fragment of the play Misoumenos by Menander (P.oxy 1605)

Category:

Written documents, manuscripts, papyri

Date:

Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, 3rd Cent. CE

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Minya, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus)

Material(s):

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

Length:

15 cm;

Width:

5.2 cm

Hall:

Islamic Antiquities, showcase M4

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

References

Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, eds., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 13, Egypt Exploration Fund (London: The Office of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1919): 45-47.
Zahi Hawass, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Archaeology Museum (Cairo: The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002): 96.
Mona Serry, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Antiquities Museum, introduction by Ismail Serageldin (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Antiquities Museum, 2015): 242, 334.

Discover The Museum Collections