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TM 63596 / LDAB 4805 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/63596 Copy URI to clipboard

also known as Mertens-Pack 02094.000

previously also TM 78786 (joined), TM 26692 (joined), TM 78785 (joined)

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Date: 2nd century AD: AD 100 - 199

Provenance: Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat) - Egypt (EgyptThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Greek, drawing

Material: papyrus

Book form: roll

Content (beta!): On the medical properties of plants; list of herbs, with coloured illustrations; herbal

Culture & genre: science — medicine, botany (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro, back: blank

Note: illustrated with drawings

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, HGVHeidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Urkunden aus Ägypten => 58606 links in TM [2][3], MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM

Publications

ZPE 187 (2013), p. 238 fr. 1-3 (Ryholt, Kim S. B. - 2013) Please subscribe to follow this link
&Pap. Congr. XXII (Firenze 1998) p. 585-601 (Hanson, Ann Ellis - 2001) [default]

∙P. Carlsberg 15 47 descr. (Ryholt, Kim S. B. - 2020)

∙P. Tebt. Tait 40 (Tait, W. John - 1977)

∙P. Tebt. Tait 39 (Tait, W. John - 1977)

∙P. Tebt. Tait 41 (Tait, W. John - 1977)

∙Archiv für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik 4 (1912), p. 403-408 (Johnson, John de Monins - 1912)

∙P. Tebt. 2 679 descr. (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S. / Goodspeed, Edgar J. - 1907) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Horak, Illuminierte Papyri Catalogue ViP 147 (p. 241) descr. (Horak, Ulrike - 1992) (= catalogue only)

∙Horak, Illuminierte Papyri Catalogue ViP 148 (p. 241) descr. (Horak, Ulrike - 1992) (= catalogue only)

∙Marganne, Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine 178 descr. (Marganne-Mélard, Marie-Hélène - 1981) (= catalogue only)

Photo: Archiv für die Geschichte 4 (1912); P. Tebt. Tait pl. 9; Weitzmann, Ancient Book Illustration, Cambridge 1959, p. 10 and fig. 10; Atti del XXII Congresso di Papirologia (Firenze 1998), Firenze 2001, pl. XXVII; ZPE 187 (2013), p. 236-237

Script & book studies: D. Fausti, in: I. Andorlini, Testi Medici su papiro, Atti del Seminario di studio, Firenze 2002 (Firenze 2004), p. 135-136

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Collections

→ Berkeley, Bancroft Library P. Tebt. 679
+→ Florence, Istituto Papirologico ’G. Vitelli’ PSI inv. 4160 (a) + PSI inv. 4160 (b)
+→ Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms number unknown + EES Box 20 folder 2/5 FF / P. Tebt. tait 39 add + EES Box 24 without number [39] + EES Box 24 without number [40] + EES Box 24 without number [41]

∙Berkeley, Bancroft Library UC 1420 (parallel)

Egypt, Tebtynis, excavations, house T26

formerly Isidora and Kronion? (cf. A. Hanson, p. 604) ++

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