The second of two frames, containing fragments of a fragmentary papyrus scroll bearing columns of demotic. Previously loose, fragments were conserved and mounted into glass in 2004. UC55872i has been identified by Tait, John (2018) as item B7 from cartonnage head-piece B, in a series of eight cartonnage head-pieces found by Petrie at Rifeh; previously stored loose in paper in a large folder. These fragments, consisting of seven pieces of varying sizes may be related papyrus B7. For the excavation report Herbert Thompson identified B7 as an account relating to sacred ibises, falcons and other creatures. The list of animals are also associated with dates, as well as human personnel—perhaps in connection with the care of said animals. The ibises and falcons are both birds that enjoyed a foremost role in the animal cults so popular in Late and Hellenistic Egypt.

- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Gizeh and Rifeh, 32, 34, 36-37

() Middle Ptolemaic Period

LDUCE-UC55872ii

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology