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TM 55977 / LDAB 55977 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/55977

Metadata

Date: Ptolemaic period: BC 332 - 30

Provenance: Egypt - Egypt (N/AThe 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: roll

Content (beta!): scientific, mathematical, concercing the problem of determining the volume of a mast in terms of hins of water for various length, continuation on Vo with additions and substractions

Culture & genre: literature, science — mathematics (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

More info: BMThe British Museum => 11073 links in TM [2][3][4][5][6][7], DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, DPDPThe Demotic Palaeographical Database Project => 216 links in TM

Publications

Parker, Demotic mathematical papyri p. 53-63 no. 41-52 (Parker, Richard A. - 1972) [default]

∙Centaurus 14.1 136-137 descr. (Parker, Richard A. - 1969)

Script & book studies: dated on the basis of palaeography in the Ptolemaic period

Collections

→ London, British Museum EA 10399 + EA 76420

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    TM 55977

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