Petition fragment
- Date:
- 3rd century BC
- Reference:
- MS.5755/1
- Part of:
- Papyri
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Fragment of a document containing parts of seven lines of an_ nieuxis, or petition to one of the Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt.
Publication/Creation
3rd century BC
Physical description
1 piece Papyrus fragment: 100 × 120 mm. Framed, frame labelled 'fragment of a letter, D90, 3rd. cent. BC, Fayyum, Egypt.'
Acquisition note
Provenance untraced.
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).