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Artefact ID1202
TM IDTM 17341
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Iand. VI 126: Letter

Piece of a sheet of papyrus preserving only a small part of a letter dealing with business matter (receipt of commodities; request for the purchase of linen; mention of a certain Theodoros acting as intermediary).

Recto: large semi-cursive hand running across the fibres.

Verso: address running along the fibres, with a simple cross before it.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from375
Date to425
Dating criteria

Palaeography. Dated to c. 400 in ed. pr. 

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Bought in Madīnat al-Fayyūm in 1926 by Prof. Carl Schmidt, Berlin.

Accession number

Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, P. Iand. inv. 625

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Rosenberger, Grete. 1934. Papyri Iandanae VI, Griechische Privatbriefe, ed. G. Rosenberger. Leipzig, no. 126 (p. 256-257).

Additional bibliography

• Bagnall, Roger and Cribiore Raffaella. 2008. Women's Letters, B15.3, Nr. 309 [online publication: ]

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1202", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1202
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