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TM 8749 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/8749

also known as Charta Borgiana; Schow Papyrus

TM Gallery info The Charta Borgiana (TM 8749) is the first Greek papyrus to be studied in the west. According to legend, it is the only surviving one of fifty papyri offered for purchase to a merchant in 1778 near Memphis, the remaining ones reportedly burnt for their allegedly delicious fragrance. In any case the document ended up in the possession of cardinal Stefano Borgia and was published by the Danish scholar Niels Iversen Schow.
Its contents, a late second century 15+ column financial report on infrastructural work in the Fayum, seems to have been very disappointing to the scholarly world, which had hoped for new literary texts from antiquity. The papyrus now is in Naples.

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Date: after AD 193 Sep 17
cf. BL 5, p. 94

Provenance: Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat) - Egypt (EgyptThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Content (beta!): List

Recto/Verso: Ro

More info: DDbDP (PN)Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri => 114817 links in TM, HGVHeidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Urkunden aus Ägypten => 58606 links in TM

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