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Artefact ID1080
TM IDTM 33391
Findspot (DEChriM ID)61   (Qaṣr al-Banāt)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Fay. 136: Incomplete letter

End of a letter in which the writer offers his help and urges the addressees to return to their homes. The writer uses a monotheistic expression "God helping you".

Good-sized cursive; text written along the fibres; final greetings on the right bottom side.

Verso: address written along fibers.

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 10811

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Grenfell,  Bernard, Hunt, Arthur S. and David G. Hogarth. 1900. Fayum Towns and their Papyri. Egypt Exploration Society, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 3. London, no. 136.

• Grenfell,  Bernard, Hunt, Arthur S. 1903. Greek Papyri, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, Nos. 10001—10869. Oxford, no. 10811 (descr.)

Additional bibliography

• Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Turnhout, 164.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1080", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1080
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