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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with few holes, but otherwise well preserved; written on both sides along the fibres, the back bearing one line, mutilated at the end. On the front there are 20 lines, the last being mutilated. The surviving margins are minimal. A sheet-join runs along the height of the sheet at c. 10-14 from the left edge. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with some surface damage in places; written on both sides along the fibres. The back bears one line, which lacks the end; on the front there are 16 lines, but of the last only few traces survive. Side and upper margins are extant and minimal. A sheet-join runs along the height of the sheet at c. 15 x mm from the right edge. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

Papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The text occupies the upper half of the sheet; there are five lines; the second is indented, and was written after some blank space at the end of the line. All margins are extant, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 60 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Papyrus sheet, darker in places, lacking part of its left half and with holes in the preserved portion; written on both sides along the fibres. On the back there is one line, of which only the beginning survives. The front bears 24 lines, many of which lack the beginnings. Margins are extant, the side and upper being minimal. Folding lines are visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

Rotulus (roll rotated 90 degrees) of papyrus broken off at the top and bottom, and damaged along the horizontal folds. Writing runs across the fibres on one side, with the back being blank. The text, incomplete, consists of one column, 300 mm wide, of 22 lines, the first and last of which are mutilated. Left and right margins survive, the right being irregular and occasionally minimal, the left measuring c. 25 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

Brown/pale papyrus roll (from a “pasted roll”, tomos synkollesimos), broken off at the top, written on the recto; verso blank. One column, 13 lines, the first 6 of which are damaged. Side and lower (75 mm) margins are preserved. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Fragment from a papyrus roll, broken to the left. The document is written on the recto, along the fibres. The verso is blank. Portions of six lines survive. The light-brown papyrus preserves the top (18 mm), the right (7 mm), and the bottom (52 mm) margins. The black ink is faded in the right edge and is darker in lines 4-6. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, with the back being blank except for the strips glued onto it in order to strengthen the surface, which bear writing. Portions of 36 columns survive; each column contained between 37 and 40 lines, being 95 mm wide and 180 mm high. The space between the columns measures on average 20 mm; the upper margin survives to 23 mm and the lower to 27 mm. The surface is occasionally damaged.

The fragments are housed in ten glass cases, named Papyrus 732 (1), Papyrus 732 (2), Papyrus 732 (3), Papyrus 732 (4), Papyrus 732 (5), Papyrus 732 (6), Papyrus 732 (7), Papyrus 732 (8), Papyrus 732 (9), Papyrus 732 (10); they are mounted on cardboard with the exception of the fragments housed in Papyrus 732(2), Papyrus 732(7), Papyrus 732(9), and Papyrus 732(10), the back of which displays written strips of papyrus added later as a support. The unplaced fragments are housed in Papyrus 732(1).

Fragments of various sizes from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres; thirty-nine columns survive, with fragments of four additional columns to be placed before the first one preserved in Papyrus 733 (1); each columns has an average of 34-35 lines and measures c. 175 x 110 mm; twenty odes are preserved, seven of which are perfect or nearly so; substantial portions of eight remain; mere fragments of five survive. Accents, breathings, punctuation and other writing aids were supplied by the four hands which intervened in the text; paragraphoi are also usually noted. PSI XII 1278 contains further fragments of the text.