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Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in one glass case.

The upper fragment (A) is the top portion of a sheet, broken off at the bottom and written on both sides: the text on the recto is Greek and runs across the fibres, whereas the verso has a one-line docket in Demotic running along the fibres. On the verso, several fibres are missing.

The lower fragment (B) is the lower part of a sheet, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank.

Sheet from a papyrus roll, written on one side, nearly complete; the first line is damaged and a very few letters are missing on the left-hand side. Housed in one glass frame and mounted on cardboard. A name containing a Coptic character is in line 13.

Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, with plaster and red paint residue, and darker surface at the top (front); mutilated especially to the right; written on both sides. On the front there are 14 lines running across the fibres, the last two of which are in Demotic; there is a blank between lines 5 and 6. Lower, left and upper margins survive. The back bears one line parallel to the fibres, written the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

Fragments of a papyrus roll reused as mummy cartonnage; the preserved portion is damaged by holes; written on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The text on the front is Demotic; the two columns on the back are in Greek, but are covered with plaster. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

Long and narrow dark-brown papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, with plaster residue and surface damage, and torn at the top; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There is one column 28 lines, the last two being in Demotic. Side margins are minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll with two detached scraps, additional fragments of which are now at Columbia University, New York, inventoried as P. 5, and at the Istituto Papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’, Florence, under the inventory 3038. The writing is on both sides. On the front, there are two columns written along the fibres, broken off at the top; lower and right margins are extant; one line is written in the right margin, being the endorsement of the text on the back. Two sheet-joins are visible. The Columbia portion preserves another column which precedes those of the BL papyrus and the beginnings of lines 16-25 of the first column of the BL portion. The portion in Florence is still unpublished. On the back, there are several columns in Demotic, written against the fibres upside down in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

Twenty-nine papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster), housed in the same glass frame

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+10: Eight fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (8+5+5+4+4+3+3+2 lines against the fibres), with upper margin partly extant.

8+9: Two fragments from the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (3+2 lines along the fibres). The text in 9 is upside down.

11: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines against the fibres).

12+13+14: Three fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (3+3+2 lines against the fibres).

15+16: Two fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (6+5 lines against the fibres on recto, 1 line along the fibres on verso).

17+18+19+20: Four fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (5+2+2 lines against the fibres), with upper, lower and right margin partly extant.

21: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), with upper and possibly right margin partly extant.

22: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (3 lines along the fibres).

23: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (1 line along the fibres on recto, traces on verso), with upper and possibly right margin (recto) partly extant.

24: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines against the fibres).

25: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (4 lines against the fibres).

26: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (3 lines against the fibres).

27: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).

28: Blank (?) papyrus fragment.

29: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines against the fibres), with upper margin partly extant.

Perhaps more fragments belong together.

Forty papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster) and four papyrus fragments apparently from another context (2+5 and possibly 3 and/or 15), housed in the same glass frame

1: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).

2+5: Two fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (3+1 lines along the fibres on recto, 3 lines against the fibres on verso).

3: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines against the fibres), with lower margin partly extant.

4: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (3 lines against the fibres).

6: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (3 lines against the fibres). The text is upside down.

7: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).

8: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).

9: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).

10: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).

11: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (2 lines along the fibres on recto, 2 lines against the fibres on verso). The text is upside down.

12: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line against the fibres).

13: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (4 lines against the fibres).

14: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (6 lines along the fibres on recto, 4 lines along the fibres on verso), with left and possibly upper margin (recto) partly extant.

15: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line against the fibres).

16: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).

17: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line against the fibres), with left margin partly extant.

18: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (1 line against the fibres on verso, 1 line against the fibres on verso).

19: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).

20+40+41+42+43+44: Six fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (9+6+6+6+3+3 lines against the fibres), with left and right margin partly extant. The join between 40 and 41 is wrong. The text in 44 is upside down.

21: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (3 lines along the fibres on recto, 2 lines against the fibres on verso).

22: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).

23: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).

24: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).

25: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines against the fibres).

26: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (3 lines against the fibres).

27: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line against the fibres).

28: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (4 lines along the fibres).

29: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (1 line along the fibres on recto, 1 line against the fibres on verso).

30: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).

31: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).

32+33+34+35+36+37+38+39: Eight fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus with drawings. Some fragments have drawings on both sides.

Perhaps more fragments belong together.

Twenty-two papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster), housed in the same glass frame

1: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres), with left margin partly extant.

2: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).

3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14: Twelve fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (6+2+2+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 lines along the fibres), with right margin partly extant. Only the upper papyrus layer of these fragments is preserved (with the exception of 6, which still has two layers). 14 has the wrong side up in the frame.

15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22: Eight fragments of the same largely complete papyrus, written on both sides (24 lines along the fibres on recto, 5 lines against the fibres on verso), with all margins partly extant.