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Description

Title: Wax tablet
Published / Created: Circa 1570 BCE to 1983
Description: No language
Provenance: 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, 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., 1996d
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Arabic
Aramaic
Coptic
Egyptian
Greek, Modern (1453- )
Hebrew
Latin
Pahlavi
Syriac, Modern

Item Location

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

YPC

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Container / Volume

box P.CtYBR inv. 4979

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Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public
Citation: P.CtYBR inv. [#]. Yale Papyrus Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Object ID (OID): 33184804

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