Papyrus
Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium
papyrus
Geography
Theadelpheia (Batn al-Harit), Egypt
Date
uncertain, possibly about 100-300 CE
Period
Roman Imperial period
Dimensions
0.9 x 1.0 cm
Object number
909.81.69
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Ancient Greece & Rome
Object History
The papyrus is one of 73 papyri acquired by the ROM from the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) in 1909, likely as a result of subscriptions to the EFF collected by Toronto donors and overseen by C. T. Currelly. The majority of them were excavated near the modern town of Batn al-Harit (ancient Theadelpheia) in the Fayum, Egypt, indicated by the Greek letter theta (θ) inscribed somewhere on the manuscript. This fragment, however, has no processing number. It may have still come from the same excavation, as not all papyri were given a processing number. Nevertheless, the absence of the θ+numeral makes the connection to Theadelpheia less secure. Between 14 September 1967 and 20 February 1976, the papyrus was in the care of Alan Samuel, a Professor at the Department of Classics, University of Toronto, who isolated this fragment from the others before returning it to the ROM.
Description
Tiny papyrus fragment. Remains of the Greek letter delta (δ) written across the fibres on the front (recto) of the manuscript.
There is no ancient writing on the back (verso).
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