Recto, Account|Verso, Document

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Title: Recto, Account|Verso, Document
Published / Created: Roman CE ii [HIB]
Abstract: Two separate documents are recorded on the recto and verso of this papyrus. The recto contains an account. The verso is a document.
Description: Greek
Provenance: 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., 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, Acquisition Information, 1927: Purchased in Egypt on behalf of Yale, with funds that may have been donated by the General Education Fund of the Rockefeller Foundation's General Education Board. The dealers' names are given as Harold Idris Bell reported them in his 1927 report.| P.CtYBR inv. 111 and 112 were purchased by Harold Idris Bell from Ishmail Abdallah el Shaer in Cairo, 14 December 1926.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)