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Artefact ID1172
TM IDTM 97320
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB XXVI 16716: Private letter.

Sheet of papyrus preserving a letter from Hermes to his wife Kyrilla, with "greetings in the Lord" and prayers to the Lord for her health. The letter contains a request involving his whole family, the object of which remains unclear because of lacunas. Mention of the ekdikos. The letter ends with simple greetings.

The writing is a fast cursive running along the fibres. The bottom part of the sheet is left blank.

Verso: address, along the fibres.

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

Palaeography, with reference to the subscription in P.Herm. 6.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Florence, Istituto Papirologico ’G. Vitelli’ PSI inv. 410

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Manfredi, Manfredo. 2001. In Studium atque urbanitas. Miscellanea in onore di Sergio Daris, edited by M. Capasso and S. Pernigotti. Pap. Lup. 9. Lecce, 239-245.

Additional bibliography

• Hagedorn, Dieter. 2002. "XX. Pap. Lup. 9, 2001", no. 6. In B. Kramer, "Referate." Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 48, 340.

• Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Turnhout, 167.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1172", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1172
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