1. Papyrus 491
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 491
- Title:
- Will of Peisias (P.Petr.2 I 13, P.Petr. I 12, P.Petr. III 9, TM 47308)
- Scope & Content:
- Copy of the will of Peisias, a Lycian military settler with land in the Arsinoite nome, who makes provisions for Pisicrates, his son from his first marriage, and for his wife Axiothea. He bequeaths to Pisicrates an apartment house in Alexandria with furniture and some Syrian slaves; his wife is ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 238-237 BC
- Extent:
-
Two fragments of a sheet from a papyrus roll reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and damaged by holes especially in the left-hand portion; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; there is one column of 24 lines; few letters of a second column are visible at the bottom right. A sheet-join runs across the fibres in the right edge; another sheet was originally glued on the left, as indicated by the paler strip on the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
