Alexandrian World Chronicle

[4] The papyrus exists in 80 fragments of Alexandrian majuscule text[5] currently housed at the Pushkin Museum[6] with marginal illustrations depicting - among other figures - Roman kings, a map of the Mediterranean, Old Testament prophets and characters, and personifications of the Roman months.

VI verso) depicts Pope Theophilus atop the Serapeum and has been called an "iconic image [...] in the history of Late Antique Alexandria";[8] the fragment has been used by historian Johannes Hahn to date the destruction of the Serapeum to 392 AD[9] though this date has been criticised by Adolf Bauer, R. W. Burgess and Jitse H. F. Dijkstra as having little authority.

[11] The fragments of the Golenischev papyrus have since been mishandled and their quality is greatly reduced from when Strzygowski and Bauer reproduced them.

[13] Burgess and Dijkstra have conjectured that both texts are based on a common source composed of the c. 221 Chronographiae of Julius Africanus and the c. 205 Liber generationis.

[14] The following plates and captions adapted from Bauer & Strzygowski 1905: Media related to Alexandrian World Chronicle at Wikimedia Commons

Pl. 6, Verso - Chronicle of 389–392. Top left: Emperor Theodosius with a small Honorius at his side. Middle left: Theophilus with a Gospel in his hand and a halo. Top right: Lower fragments of a figure representing Emperor Valentinian . Middle right: the counter-Emperor Eugenius . Bottom: two fragments of the Serapeum with stone-throwing monks between them.