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Artefact ID1193
TM IDTM 43156
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB XXII 15247: Account.

List of daily incomes or expenses with amounts given in myriads of denarii. One entry concerns the oikonomos of a church.

The text is written in a clear semi-cursive hand, running parallel with the fibres. There is a staurogram before the first line.

Verso is blank.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from375
Date to399
Dating criteria

The text is dated to 4th c. in ed. pr. but, according to l. 7n., the price of the wine measure points rather to the end of the century.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

The document was acquired in 1883; Fayyum.

Accession number

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 17011

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Weissl, Michael. 1993. "Neue Wiener Texte zur byzantinischen Wirtschaft" ed. E. Tabakaki,  M. Weissl and M. Derndarsky.  Analecta Papyrologica 5, no. 5 (p. 65).

Additional bibliography

• Bagnall, Roger. 1985. Currency and Inflation in Fourth-century Egypt. [Chico, CA] : Scholars Press.

• Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Turnhout, 117.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1193", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1193
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