Search

Language Egyptian (Ancient) Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 56489

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 56489
Title:
Receipt for payment (UPZ II 155, SB I 3937, TM 3556)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript records the third in a series of payments to the royal fisc by the brothers Teos and Zminis (UPZ 2 153-4 record the first two, also on wooden tablets). The brothers had purchased an ibiotapheion, a priestly office, and half of a plot of land designated as dorea, all of which had ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8 September 255 BC
Extent:
Narrow wood tablet with writing on both sides. The recto contains 16 lines of Greek and one line of a Demotic subscript summarizing the Greek. The verso contains three lines of Greek briefly recording the date and payment amount. The top of the piece of the wood was shaped into a point prior to writing and is referred to in several of the publications as ‘stela-shaped’.

2. Add MS 88942

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942
Title:
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1732-1952
Extent:

849 files

3. Add MS 89383

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89383
Title:
Feet from a painted terracotta shabti, Ramesside period (1292-1069 BC)
Scope & Content:
Feet from a painted terracotta shabti, Ramesside period (1292-1069 BC), partly inscribed. Acquired by Sir John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838) or a member of his family.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient)
Date Range:
1292-1069 BCE
Extent:
1 item

4. Egerton Papyrus 1-37

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Papyrus 1-37
Title:
Egerton Papyri
Scope & Content:
Collection of Greek papyri purchased from the Bridgewater and Farnborough Funds. c 100-c 800. 37 papyri In 1934 it was decided to form a category of Egerton Papyri, to include Greek papyri purchased from the Bridgewater and Farnborough Funds. Since the papyrus containing the Mimiambi of Herodas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic, Egyptian (Ancient), and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c. 1-800
Extent:
37 items