Janus: Papyri from El-Hibneh

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.4454	Gallus: Der Spiegel Jungfraw Marien von der erlösung menschliches geschleches
MS Add.4455	William Smyth: Horae Lyricae
MS Add.4457	Lives of Female Saints
MS Add.4459	Copies of Fourteenth-Century Parliament Rolls
MS Add.4460	Copy of a runic calender
MS Add.4461-4466	Papyri from El-Hibneh
MS Add.4467-4468	Coventry Grammar School: Catalogue of the library and register of book donors
MS Add.4469	Praxis in Curiis Ecclesiasticis
MS Add.4471-4476	Henry Seebohm: Journals of ornithological trips and notes on ornithological subjects
MS Add.4477	Charles Sivrac: Memoirs
MS Add.4478	Catalogue of William Cole Manuscripts in the British Museum
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Papyri from El-Hibneh

Title	Papyri from El-Hibneh
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.4461-4466
Covering Dates	240 (280–240 BC)
Extent and Medium	6 fragments; papyrus
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Presented by the president and committee of the Egypt Exploration fund as part of the distribution of cartonnage from the Ptolemaic necropolis of El-Hibeh

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Papyri from El-Hibneh, MS Add.4461-4466

Further information

All the papyri are described in B. P Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, 'The Hibeh Papyri' I (London, 1906)

Manuscripts/MS Add.4461-4466 contains:

MS Add.4461

Euripedes: Iphigenia in Tauris.
1 Fragment; Papyrus.

240

MS Add.4462

Letter of Leodamas to Lysimachus concerning the official collection and transport of grain.
1 Fragment; Papyrus.

256

MS Add.4463

Letter of Leodamas to Lysimachus, seeking information on advances in seed-corn.
1 Fragment; Papyrus.

255

MS Add.4464

Letter of Demophon to Ptolemaeus, a village official in the Oxyrinchite nome.
1 Fragment; Papyrus.

246

MS Add.4465

Letter of Protarchus to Clitarchus, a government financer relating to the collection of a tax.
1 Fragment; Papyrus.

228

MS Add.4466

Correspondence relating to the disappearance of the official seal of the temple of Heracles at Phebichis.
1 Fragment; Papyrus.

241