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TM 55866 / LDAB 55866 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/55866

Metadata

Date: 3rd century BC: BC 299 - 200
cf. OrAnt 2 (1963), p. 5

Provenance: Arsinoites (Fayum) ? - Egypt (00The region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Demotic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: fragment; number of lines per page: 14, 9, 17

Content (beta!): narrative, Inaros - Petoubastis cycle

Authors / works: The Petoubastis cycle (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, novel (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

Note: either one text with continuation or two texts, but more probably one single text because of the script and the theme

More info: BMThe British Museum => 11071 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM

Publications

Oriens Antiquus 2 (1963), p. 4-8 no. 2 (Bresciani, Edda - 1963) [default]

Photo: Oriens Antiquus 2 (1963), pl. 2-3

Script & book studies: date: first Ptolemaic period. The hand of Ro and Vo are very similar, probably the same hand.

Other bibliography: Bourriau, JEA 65 (1979), p. 154 no. 61

Collections

→ London, British Museum EA 10850

∙Cairo, Private collection Michaelidis without number (previous)

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