Colt Papyrus Fragment 82.

During excavations at Auja el-Hafir (ancient city of Nessana) in Palestine, Harris Dunscombe Colt (Colt Archaeological Expedition), under the auspices of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, discovers papyri (considered the joint property of Colt and the Palestine Government, with a division of them to be made later) in two storerooms attached to the churches of Mary Mother of God and of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, winter of 1935-36; 13 papyrus rolls and 20 boxes of papyri fragments (and 460 coins) are lent with the government's permission to the British Museum for treatment and study purposes, agreement dated 28 May 1936; Colt requests the loan to New York University of certain papyri, 20 August 1937; 12 papyri (and 15 shards, 1 bone and 3 stone objects) are lent with the government's permission to the British Museum for treatment and study purposes, agreement dated 21 August 1937; loan agreement of 28 May 1936 extended to 31 December 1938; four Arabic papyri are returned to Palestine, as of 28 February 1939; loan agreements of 28 May 1936 and 21 August 1937 are extended to 31 December 1939; the papyri are deposited at the Classics Department of New York University for cataloguing, date unknown but by 1941 at the latest; loan of some papyri to Brooklyn Museum of Art for exhibition, 1945; Colt donates literary papyri nos. 7 and 13 to the Pierpont Morgan Library and places the rest of the literary papyri (a portion of which are his) on deposit, 1955; Colt places on deposit at the Morgan the non-literary papyri (a portion of which are his), 1958; following Colt's death in 1973, his estate indicates that Colt's portion of the papyri are gifts to the Morgan, 1979; papyri fragments that were still at New York University are transferred to the Morgan, 1981.