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Artefact ID1268
TM IDTM 33108
Findspot (DEChriM ID)41   (Kūm Awšīm)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

SB VI 9436 p: Receipt of payment in kind.

Payment for the 12 indiction. Christian cryptogram ΧΜΓ at the top of it.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from400
Date to499
Dating criteria

Dated 4th c. in ed. pr., but this was questioned by Sijpesteijn 1986: 118 and then Gascou 1994: 46 who both suggested a date in the 5th c. (a date now accepted in the Michigan/APIS catalogue).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Returned to Cairo. Previously: Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P.Mich.inv. 2817 e

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Pearl, O.M. 1953. "Short texts from Karanis." Aegyptus 33, 3-29: no. 31, p. 23. 

Additional bibliography

• Bagnall, Roger and Lewis, Naphtali. 1970. Columbia Papyri VII, Fourth Century Documents from Karanis. Missoula, 99 n. 18.

• Gascou, Jean. 1994. Papyrus de la Sorbonne II, Un Codex fiscal Hermopolite (P.Sorb. II 69). Atlanta, 46.

• Sijpesteijn, Pieter. 1986. "Ναυλεπλοῖον: A Ghost Word?" Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 64, 117-118. 

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1268", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1268
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