Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
| Name: | Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum |
| Location: | Cambridge |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Address: |
Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street Cambridge, CB2 1RB UK - England |
| Homepage: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk |
| Contact: | |
| E-mail: | fitzmuseum-antiquities@lists.cam.ac.uk |
| Numbering: |
[29.01.08] - without prefix, numbers from 14 till 70 [< publication number Budge] - without prefix, number '506 - 515' - Add, number 109 [papyrus] - E, numbers such as 156 / 1914 and 1951.1 [probably with the date of acquisition] - E.SU., number 169 - EGA, numbers such as 3141 / 1943 [probably with the date of acquisition] - GR. P., numbers from 41 till 537 [Greek ostraca] - mummy label, numbers from 1 till 23 - Pap., number 2 [papyrus] |
| Conservation: | |
| Inventarisation: | Database |
| Publications: |
1. J. Shelton, ZPE 80 (1990), 221-38 (SB XX 15044-6, 15048-60); ZPE 81 (1990), 267-9 (SB XX 15081); ZPE 86 (1991), 267-76 (SB XX 15117-29); D. W. J. Gill, ZPE 86 (1991), 277. E.A.W. Budge, A catalogue ot the Egyptian Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge (Cambridge, 1893) nos. 425, 506-15 Greek ostraca, 428 Coptic ostracon, 426-7, 516-17 demotic ostraca. 2. D. Page, CQ 32 (1938), 45-46 5. F. Heichelheim, AJPh, April 1940, 209-210 (published as Greek; later identified by Museum as Coptic). |
| Work: | the publication of some of the Coptic ostraca, including tax receipts probably from Jem, was planned by Sarah Clackson |
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| History: |
c. 70 papyri and ostraca. Languages: demotic, Coptic, Greek, Nubian. Figures not yet available. Date: ? at least 2nd c. BCE-8th c. CE. Place of origin: Greek ostraca probably come from Elephantine, Thebes, Oxyrhynchus, and Mons Claudianus. Greek papyrus may be from Oxyrhynchus. Coptic ostraca: some probably from Jeme. Ptolemaic papyrus from west dump at Saqqara. 1. 18??: a collection of Greek ostraca was acquired. 2. 1922: Greek papyrus fragment of Euripides Medea 1156-60, 1165-77, given by one of the British Schools of Archaeology 3. 1929: Roll of goatskin leather (Nubian). 4. 1932: Greek papyrus bequeathed by E. Towry Whyte 5. 1933: Coptic papyrus bequeathed by ?. Henderson. 6. 1943: the Museum was presented with most of R. G. Gayer-Anderson’s Egyptian collection (note that some of his ostraca went to the Medelshavsmeet, Stockholm: WWWEg 3 :165). 7. 1975: Ptolemaic circular papyrus. Note that the ostraca presented to the Museum by Herbert Thompson are now in Cambridge University Library |