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Papyrus Ptolemaic PeriodHiba (Ankyronpolis)

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 09.182.54. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 09.182.54
Find spot: Hiba (Ankyronpolis), Middle Egypt, Egypt
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Reign: Philadelphos?
Date: ca. 250 B.C.
Date range: 250 BCE – 250 BCE
Materials: ['papyrus']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Papyrus (09.182.54). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/215631

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Ptolemaic Period, Philadelphos?, ca. 250 B.C. Papyrus. Framed: H. 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.); W. 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.). From: cartonnage of mummy 69, Hiba (Ankyronpolis), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations 1902-1903. Subject: Documents. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909.

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