Catalog Record: michigan.apis.4056 [xml]
Title | P.Mich.inv. 1555 |
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Author | Unknown |
Summary | Abnormal Hieratic letter. Because of the condition of the papyrus little has yet been deciphered of the text. Recto 1 appears to have a name. Verso 1 appears to begin with "And" as if beginning a new section and mention 5 kite of silver later in the line. |
Citations | |
Inv. Id | P.Mich.inv. 1555 |
Support/Dimensions | 1 papyrus ; 16x7.3 cm |
Condition | The text is very fragmentary. Lines 2 and 3 of the recto are mostly gone. The papyrus is brittle to the touch and tended to fragment when touched. |
Lines | recto: 16 lines; verso: 8 lines |
Recto/Verso | Source of description: a; recto-verso |
Hands | The scribe wrote the letter using the naroow "recto" to utilize the fibers and when he turned the text over, he rotated the text 90 degress to again take advantage of the fibers. |
Origin | Thebes, Upper Egypt |
Language | Hieratic |
Date | VIIth-VIth century B.C. (25th-26th Dynasties) |
Note (general) | The description of papyrus was made by Eugene Cruz-Uribe, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri at University of Michigan, 1988, p.8-9 |
Note (general) | Location: Ann Arbor |
Note (general) | Pub. status: Under research; contact institution |
Subjects | Documentary; Papyrus |
Associated Names | Petosiris (?) .[...] |
License | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
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