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8 works of visual art in this collection
papyrus_fragmentBerlin Papyrus Collection
A fragment of a Latin parchment codex containing text from Cicero's speech 'Pro Plancio'.
papyrus_fragmentBerlin Papyrus Collection
A fragmentary Greek papyrus containing the Consularia Berolinensia, an illustrated world chronicle depicting Christian martyrs.
papyrus_fragmentBerlin Papyrus Collection
A Greek papyrus letter sent by a Roman soldier named Apion to his father Epimachus.
papyrus_fragmentBerlin Papyrus Collection
A Hellenistic Greek legal document on papyrus containing a marriage contract between Herakleides and Demetria.
papyrus_fragmentBerlin Papyrus Collection
A fragmented papyrus from the record book of Aurelius Philammon containing Greek script that combines military accounts with magical spells.
papyrus_fragmentBerlin Papyrus Collection
A papyrus fragment containing a royal decree issued by Cleopatra VII granting trade and tax privileges to the Roman official Publius Canidius Crassus.
papyrus_fragmentBerlin Papyrus Collection
A Latin papyrus fragment containing portions of a speech delivered by Emperor Claudius to the Roman Senate.
papyrus_fragmentBerlin Papyrus Collection
A papyrus fragment featuring multiple columns of Greek text from the Gnomon of the Idios Logos, a Roman administrative handbook for Egypt.
Original administrative documents, royal decrees, and private letters from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Includes a decree bearing the signature of Cleopatra VII, speeches of Emperor Claudius, the oldest dated Greek text (310 BCE), and the famous letter of the soldier Apion to his father.
9 books in this collection