The Petrie Papyri. Volume 1: The Wills

by W Clarysse

This is the first volume of the long awaited new edition of the Petrie papyri, which were found in mummy cartonnage in a cemetery on the fringe of the Fayum and first published in the last decade of the 19th century. Hundreds of Greek and demotic papyri will be reedited with many additions to the editio princeps (which did not include the numerous fragments) and an up-to-date commentary. The present volume contains the remains of a register of Ptolemaic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 906569451X
• ISBN13: 9789065694515
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 299 Pages