Classics Department Papyri Collection
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the 1980s, the Classics Department purchased about these Egyptian papyri for use as a teaching and research collection. The provenance of the papyri is uncertain, but like many others they could have been found in ancient garbage dumps or mummy wrappings (cartonnage). Hellenistic in origin, nearly all date from 250-150 BCE. Their texts, written in ancient Greek and Demotic, are documentary in nature: official letters, receipts, accounts, contracts, petitions (including one from jail), land measurement, public sale at auction, and lists of names.
Description
| Type of resource | mixed material |
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| Language | Greek, Ancient (to 1453); Egyptian |
Bibliographic information
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jr022nf7673 |
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| Location | sul:M1809 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections (http://library.stanford.edu/spc).