Two Unpublished Figurines of Women Purifying themselves in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria

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P. Cair. Zen = Zenon Papyri, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, ed. C.C. Edgar. Cairo, I, 1925. (Cat. 79). Nos. 59001—59139; IV, 1931. (Cat. 90). Nos. 59532—59800.

P. Col. = Columbia Papyri,III, Zenon Papyri: Business Papers of the Third Century B.C. dealing with Palestine and Egypt I, ed. W.L. Westermann and E.S. Hasenoehrl. New York 1934.

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P. Louvre= I, Griechische Papyri aus Soknopaiu Nesos, ed. A. Jördens mit Beiträgen von K.-Th. Zauzich. Bonn 1998.

P. Petr = The Flinders Petrie Papyri. Dublin. (Royal Irish Academy, Cunningham Memoirs). III, ed. J.P. Mahaffy and J.G. Smyly. 1905. 

P. Ryl= Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Manchester, II, Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, ed. J. de M. Johnson, V. Martin and A.S. Hunt. 1915. Nos. 62—456. [JRL].

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Website:

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3481.

http://antiquities.bibalex.org/Collection/Detail.aspx?lang=en&a=1056.