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The Greek papyri are glazed between paper, several under each piece of glass. The demotic papyri are with one exception stored between paper. They are kept in one archive box in the department of Classics.

At present there is no inventory. All texts have been scanned and put on a cd-ROM, of which copies are with J. Manning, W.Clarysse and H.Melaerts.

None of the other pieces have been published, but a publication is being prepared by W. Clarysse and C. Fischer.

Edition of the Greek documents is being prepared by Clarysse and C. Fischer; a first report is given in the proceedings of the Vienna papyrological congress.

The papyri were purchased by the department through the dealer Fackelmann in 1985. They come from cartonnage. They probably belong to a large find of cartonnage dating from the early 1980’s and purchased by Duke, Köln. Heidelberg, Helsinki, Michigan and others. The Michigan papyri from this group date form 215-186/5 BCE and probably derive from a cemetery at Abusir el-Maleq or El-Lahun. The Michigan texts derive from a grapheion in the eastern Arsinoites and Herakleopolites nomes. Many have been linked specifically to one Peteminis of the village of Mouchis. On the whole the Stanford papyri on the basis of paleography would fit well into this provenance. All of the papyri are documentary or administrative (letters). There are 30 Greek papyri and 25 fragments, and 21 demotic papyri, many of which are accounts and lists. There are several contracts of sale, and one surety text.