| Artefact ID | 1083 |
| TM ID | TM 128684 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 67 (Idfū) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Jena II 4: Receipt Beginning of a receipt for repayment of a loan of money from cavalryman Fl. Makarios, son of Iohannes, to Aur. Serenus, councillor of Antinoopolis. There is a cross at the beginning of l.1, elaborately written, with the descender going down to l. 4; very cursive handwriting, running along the fibres. Verso is blank. The ed. notes that Fl. Makarios is said to be stationed with a seldom encountered detachment (vexillatio) of cavalry at Latopolis which may have been the equites sagittarii indigenae (Not. dign. or. 31.28). For another rare reference to a military unit stationed there, see O.Douch V 625. Fl. Makarios is otherwise unknown according to the ed. (but note that a certain "Fl. Makarios, soldier of the Mauri Scutarii" [Not. dign. or. 31.23] left an inscription in the church of Monesis, see I.Oasis p. 29, no. 11 [V.S.]). The reason why the papyrus was found in Edfu (not far from Latopolis) might be that the receipt never reached the addressee in Antinoopolis or was a copy retained by the sender. |
| Selection criteria | Christian onomastics, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 396 |
| Date to | 396 |
| Dating criteria | Consulship of Flavius Arcadius Augustus IV and Flavius Honorius Augustus III |
| Absolute/relative date | Absolute date |
| Archaeological context | Purchased in Edfu in 1911. |
| Accession number | Jena, Institut für Altertumswissenschaften der Universität, P.Jen.inv. 380 |
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