| Artefact ID | 1181 |
| TM ID | TM 10553 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 52 (Ḫarabat Ihrīt) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Col. VIII 237: Receipt for Share of Inheritance. Almost complete sheet of papyrus; only a strip about 2 cm wide is lost at the left. It contains a notarial deed according to which Aur. Herodes, son of Antinonos, from the village of Theadelphia acknowledges to Aur. Agathos son of Atin from the same village receipt of one solidus on account of his share of their inheritance from a relative named Asaueis. The body of the document is written in a neat, undistinctive hand (4th or early 5th c.) running along the fibres; the consular date is written in a very fast cursive and the notarial signature is a number of scrawls. The ed. note that there is a cross before the signature, but specify that it is surprising at this date and could be instead a false start on di emu. See also P.Grenf. I 54, with same problem, and Choat 2006:117. On the verso is written the title of the document "Deed of Herodes to Agathos", along the fibres. |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 381 |
| Date to | 382 |
| Dating criteria | Consular formula on l. 1. The ed. pr. assigned the document to the consulate of Olybrius (395?), but the reading was corrected and the document reassigned to the consulate of Syagrius, in 381 or 382 (Bagnall and Worp: 2004: 190). For the day, see Reiter 1995: 96 (= BL XIII 71). |
| Absolute/relative date | Absolute date |
| Archaeological context | |
| Accession number | New York, Columbia University, inv. P. 42 |
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