1. Papyrus 33
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 33
- Title:
- Petition of the Twin Sisters of the Serapeum (UPZ I 39, TM 3430), and Private Letter (UPZ I 74, TM 3465)
- Scope & Content:
- Draft of a petition to the hypodioiketes Sarapion from the twin sisters Taous and Taoues, who ask for his assistance to receive the oil allowance still due to them. A draft of the beginning of a letter from Apollonius to various individuals is written in the right margin, the other way up in re...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 161 BC
- Extent:
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Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, but torn along the left edge and in the centre; written on one side along the fibres. On the front, there is a column of 35 lines and another small column of 10 lines written the other way up in relation to the first column, with traces of two erased lines; all margins are extant. The back is blank. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
