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Papyrus bearing comments on Homer’s Iliad VI 236, 252, 285
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Mounir

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Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0511

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. 60566
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 1809

where to find

Storeroom

Papyrus bearing comments on Homer’s Iliad VI 236, 252, 285

Category:

Written documents, manuscripts, papyri

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Minya, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus)

Material(s):

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

Length:

10.5 cm;

Width:

10 cm

where to find:

Storeroom

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

References

William Gillian Waddell, “Three Homeric Papyri from Oxyrhynchus”, Mélanges Maspero, vol. 2, Orient Grec, Romain et Byzantin, Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire (MIFAO) 67, fasc. 1 (Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1934): 148–151.
Stephanos Matthaios, Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, eds., Ancient Scholarship and Grammar: Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts, Trends in Classics - Supplementary 8 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011): 173-177.

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