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Papyrus document

Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium papyrus
Geography
Excavated at Theadelpheia (Batn al-Harit), Egypt
Date about 138-161 CE
Period Roman Imperial period, reign of Antoninus Pius
Dimensions 9.5 x 6.1 cm
Object number 909.81.52
Description

A fragment of a small bureaucratic document of an undiscernable type, both upper and lower margins remain. The front (recto) contains 5 lines of Greek text, written in a documentary hand with black ink along the fibres. Lines 4 and 5 contain elements of a dating formula: "Year 16 of NN | the Lord." The  following letters αν (an) may be the first letters of "Antoninus Caesar."

There is no ancient writing on the back (back).

A processing number θ46 was written on the back (verso) some time after excavation.

Papyrus document
Papyrus document - 909.81.52_3_20220609_3k
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