| Artefact ID | 1194 |
| TM ID | TM 69799 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 30 (al-Ašmūnayn) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | BGU XVII 2727: Order of payment Order of payment in form of a letter sent by Athanaios to his lord Menas, asking that he sends him 200 myriads (of denarii) through Agathos. Dated Tybi 14 of 2nd indiction. Above the first line appears the Christian cryptogram ΧΜΓ. Text written in a semi-cursive hand across the fibres |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 375 |
| Date to | 425 |
| Dating criteria | Dated to the 2nd half of 4th c. in ed. pr. but the use of χμγ might rather point to early 5th c. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Excavations O. Rubensohn in Eschmunen in 1905. |
| Accession number | Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 13255 |
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