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Artefact ID1280
TM IDTM 34196
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB XX 15095; P.Cair.Preis. 6: Orders for arrest.

Sheet of papyrus containing two similar orders for arrest from the praepositus pagi. Both texts are written by the same hand, across the fibres.

Choat 2006: 117 remarks traces of a staurogram (after photo), in the left margin of the second text (= BL XIII 224), but this was not noticed in any of the editions.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria-
Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 10498

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition

• Worp, Klaas. 1990. "Yet Another Order to Arrest: P.Cair. Inv. No. 10539." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84, 207-210.

Editio princeps

Preisigke, Friedrich. 1911. Griechische Urkunden des Aegyptischen Museums zu Kairo. Strasbourg, no. 6.

Additional bibliography

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

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1280", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1280
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