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Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 4th century–3rd quarter of the 4th century

Despite its rather austere appearance, Codex Sinaiticus is a treasure beyond price. Produced in the middle of the 4th ce...

Papyrus Created date: 305–306

Marriage contracts and deeds of divorce are recorded in the Greek papyri that survive from Egypt, although the union and...

Papyrus Created date: 4th century

The Theban Magical Library includes magical texts on papyrus, mainly written in Greek and Demotic. These papyri, dated ...

Papyrus Created date: Mid-4th century

Dating to the mid fourth century, this papyrus sheet contains a private letter. The sender is a woman called Valeria, wh...

Manuscript Created date: Late 4th century

These fragments are all that survive of a book written in North Africa in the late fourth century. They preserve part of...

Papyrus Created date: 4th century–5th century

Magic played an important role for centuries in ancient Egypt, and represented a central tenet of religion and everyday ...

Papyrus Created date: 363

Petitions surviving on papyrus shed light on everyday problems in the ancient world. Many of the complaints recorded con...

Papyrus Created date: 4th century

This fourth- or fifth-century papyrus, overall well preserved, is one of the Greek magical papyri from the British Libra...

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