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Papyrus bearing a list of payments for corn (P.oxy 1531) on the recto, and a contract on the verso (P.oxy 1637)
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Mounir

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0566

Inv.Inventory
XXVI 205
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. 47490
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 1048
P.Oxy.Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa) Papyri
1531-1637

where to find

Storeroom

Papyrus bearing a list of payments for corn (P.oxy 1531) on the recto, and a contract on the verso (P.oxy 1637)

Category:

Written documents, manuscripts, papyri

Date:

Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, 257 - 259 CE

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Minya, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus)

Material(s):

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

Length:

27.6 cm;

Width:

11.6 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. 12, Egypt Exploration Society (London: The Office of the Egypt Exploration Society, 1916): 265.
Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, eds., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 14, Egypt Exploration Society (London: The Office of the Egypt Exploration Society, 1920): 45-49.

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