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Artefact ID1092
TM IDTM 17167
Findspot (DEChriM ID)30   (al-Ašmūnayn)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

P.Vind.Sijp. 4 (= P.L.Bat. XI 4): Surety

Contract of surety by Aur. Panechotes, son of Horos, priest, from the village of Senomorrho in the Hermopolites nome, to Aur. Asklepiades, praepositus pagi, according to which Panechotes offers sworn caution for Aur. Patos, son of Horos, komarch of the same village. Aur. Silbanos wrote for Panechotes who is illiterate.

The document belongs to the archive of Asklepiades; a duplicate of the text is published in CPR XXIII 30.

Cursive handwriting, running along the fibres.

Verso: probably blank.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions
Date from340
Date to340
Dating criteria

Consular date formula (l. 15-17): Septimius Acyndinus and Populonius Proculus, Epeiph 15 (= July 9, 340), with correction in Mitthof 2002.

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context

Found during excavations in 1887.

Accession number

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 25851

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Sijpesteijn, Pieter J. 1963. Einige Wiener Papyri. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava XI. Leiden, no. 4.

Additional bibliography

• Mitthof, Fritz. 2002. "Bemerkung zu Papyri XV ." Tyche 17, 254.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1092", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1092