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The Aphrodito Papyri
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Literary HistoryUpper EgyptHistorical MethodologyLiterary CriticismReligious SymbolLarge DiscoveryAphrodito PapyriArchaeologyKom IshgauPoeticsMiddle Eastern StudiesLanguage StudiesHistorical EvidenceArtsClassicsArchaeological Evidence
In vol. iii. (1902) of the Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte Mr. J. E. Quibell gave an account of a large discovery of papyrus at Kom Ishgau, a village situated 7 kil. to the S.W. of Tema in Upper Egypt. The discovery was made in 1901 by some of the villagers who were digging a well, and the papyri found were divided among the inhabitants. News of the discovery coming to the authorities, a police-guard was despatched, only to find that the papyri had disappeared; some seem to have been burnt, the rest were hidden for the time being and afterwards no doubt disposed of to various dealers, through whom, like the famous and much larger ‘Faijum-fund,’ they became dispersed through Europe.