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Artefact ID1206
TM IDTM 17537
Findspot (DEChriM ID)28   (al-Bahnasā)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Ross.Georg. V 60 Vo: Account of expenses

Account of expenses for service remuneration in wheat in two columns. According to the edition, the first line of column 1, with the title of the document, ends with a cross written over the ου, see l. 1n.

Text written across the fibres.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from391
Date to399
Dating criteria

The text on the recto is a letter addressed to the strategos or exactor of the Hermopolites nome dated June 10, 391 (TM 17536). The account on the verso must have been written sometime after.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Probably found in Al-Ašmūnayn. Part of the private collection of Nikolay Petrovič Lichačev, which had been brought from Cairo in 1907, with further acquisitions from Paris and from Grigol Zereteli. First transferred to the Museum of Palaeography of Academy of Sciences (Leningrad), it was then brought to the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Most of the papyri from the Academy of Science are now at the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg (see Chepel 2018 and Zereteli 1930).

Accession number

St Petersburg, Academy of Sciences, Institute of History number unknown

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Zereteli, Grigorij F. and Ernštedt, Pëtr V. 1935. Papyri russischer und georgischer Sammlungen V, Varia. Tiflis, no. 60 vo.

Additional bibliography

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

• Chepel, Elena. 2018. "Russian collections of Greek papyri and history of their publication: an overview (with the catalogue of Greek papyri held at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow)." Egypt and Neighbouring Countries 3. 57-80: 58.

• Zereteli, Grigol. 1930. "La Papyrologie Grecque en Russie." Chronique d'Egypte 6. 460-463: 461.

Authors
Valérie Schram, Victoria G. D. Landau, 2021, 2023
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, Victoria G. D. Landau, 2021, 2023, "Artefact ID 1206", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1206
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