| Artefact ID | 1260 |
| TM ID | TM 33625 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 62 (Ihnāsiyā al-Madīna) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Amh. II 147: Contract The contract concerns a loan of seed corn from Phebichis, a village in the Herakleopolite nome.
Most of the contract is preserved except for a gap in the description of the first party (see Vann Loon 2018) and for the bottom part of the contract, after the stipulatio, which would have contained the subscriptions. No Christian marker except for a chrismon on the verso, before the docket. For a similar instance of chrismon, see P.Mich. VIII 520.
Recto: cursive handwriting running along the fibres.
Verso: only part of the docket is preserved; also running along the fibres (90° turn). |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 307 |
| Date to | 381 |
| Dating criteria | Dated to 4th or early 5th c. in the ed. pr., the date was narrowed down by Van Loon 2018 who suggested that the document was addressed to a member of the staff of the praefectus Aegypti which gives a terminus ante quem of 381 (while the mention of a pagus gives a terminus post quem of 307). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912. Possibly coming from Herakleopolis. |
| Accession number | New York, Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Manuscript Amh. Gr. Pap. 147. |
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