Recto, Document|Verso, Account

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Title: Recto, Document|Verso, Account
Published / Created: Roman CE iii [HIB]
Abstract: Two separate documents are recorded on the recto and verso of this papyrus. | The recto contains a document, while the verso contains a list of articles.
Provenance: The Yale Papyrus Collection was held by the Yale University Library from 1899 to 1930, when it was moved to the Department of Classics. The collection was transferred from the Department of Classics to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library gradually between 1964 and 1967. A group of items including wax tablets and mummy tags (P.CtYBR inv.4971-4985) was transferred from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History to the Beinecke Library in 1996., Acquired by gift and purchase, 1889-2005. Acquisition information is recorded in each individual description and on the Library’s Web site, here: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/research-teaching/doing-research-beinecke/introduction-yale-papyrus-collection/guide-yale-papyrus#Acquisition, Acquisition Information, 1927: Purchased in Egypt on behalf of Yale, with funds that may have been donated by the General Education Fund of the Rockefeller Foundation's General Education Board. The dealers' names are given as Harold Idris Bell reported them in his 1927 report.| P.CtYBR inv. 113-133, 2068-2075 were purchased by Bell in el-Minya and Akhmim, on 29th November and 3rd December 1926.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)