| Artefact ID | 1207 |
| TM ID | TM 32377 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Haun. II 25: Letter to father Dorotheos Complete letter at the top and both sides but broken at the bottom (about half of the text is missing). The letter is addressed to "my master, verily in all things, my most honoured father Dorotheos", from Apammon, with "greetings in the Lord God". After salutations wishes for "good health and spirit", Apammon tells the recipient that he has received his letter concerning some receipt and informs him about finding a man who happens to be suffering in his foot (?). The rest of the letter, which continues on the back, is difficult to make sense of. The final salutations are preserved. At the top of the letter, in the middle of the first line was written the Christian cryptogram ΧΜΓ. After the last word of the final salutation is a cross. The ed. notes an interesting feature in the occasional use of double diagonal lines and spaces between words, presumably for aesthetic effect (l. 1-4) and punctuation (l. 4 and 7), but without apparent meaning elsewhere. The text was written along the fibres, in a "rather large and crude with personal features" hand-writing (ed. pr.). Spelling is generally bad and there is much uncertainty in the use of cases. Verso: the letter continues, also along the fibres. The address was written upside down (along the fibres).
The correspondents are the same as in P.Oxy. LXVI 3864. |
| Selection criteria | Mention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Mention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 375 |
| Date to | 499 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeographically dated to 4th c or possibly 5th c. in ed. pr. on comparison with P.Herm. 4 and P.Herm. 5. But see now the parallel P.Oxy. LXVI 3864, dated 5th c. in ed. pr. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | The Oxyrhynchite provenance was suggested by N. Gonis by comparison with P.Oxy. LXVI 3864: "It is likely that the two letters lay close to each other in the same rubbish dump of Bahnasa" (but the 'Papyri Haunienses' were acquired on the antiquities market), see Gonis 2000: 184 = BL XII 86. |
| Accession number | Copenhagen, Carlsberg Papyrus Collection P.Haun. inv. 34 |
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