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Papyrus bearing parts of Homer’s Iliad (P.oxy 1820)
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Sobhy

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0565

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. 47513
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 1071
P.Oxy.Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa) Papyri
1820

where to find

Storeroom

Papyrus bearing parts of Homer’s Iliad (P.oxy 1820)

Category:

Written documents, manuscripts, papyri

Date:

Byzantine Period, 6th to 7th Cent. CE

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Minya, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus)

Material(s):

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

Length:

38.5 cm;

Width:

17.8 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. 15, Egypt Exploration Society (London: The Office of the Egypt Exploration Society, 1922): 225.

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