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Fragment of a vellum leaf bearing part of the works of Thucydides (III 7-9) (P.oxy 1623)
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Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0562

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. 47499
P.Oxy.Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa) Papyri
1623
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 1057

where to find

Storeroom

Fragment of a vellum leaf bearing part of the works of Thucydides (III 7-9) (P.oxy 1623)

Category:

Written documents, manuscripts, parchments

Date:

Byzantine Period, 5th to 6th Cent. CE

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Minya, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus)

Material(s):

Organic material, animal product, parchment

Length:

14.7 cm;

Width:

5.5 cm

where to find:

Storeroom

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): 197-198.

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