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Papyrus bearing a question addressed to the Oracle of Serapis (P.oxy 1148)
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Mounir

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0551

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. 47442
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 1000
P.Oxy.Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa) Papyri
1148

where to find

Storeroom

Papyrus bearing a question addressed to the Oracle of Serapis (P.oxy 1148)

Category:

Written documents, manuscripts, papyri

Date:

Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, 1st Cent. CE

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Minya, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus)

Material(s):

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

Length:

7.1 cm;

Width:

5.8 cm

where to find:

Storeroom

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

References

Arthur S. Hunt, ed., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 8, Egypt Exploration Fund (London: The Office of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1911): 249.

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