Artefact ID | 1393 |
TM ID | TM 64613 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 30 (al-Ašmūnayn) | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
Text content | Subliterary |
Language | Greek |
Description | P.Rain.Unterricht 47: School text with drawings. Sheet of papyrus with writings on both sides, comprising different texts written each time after the papyrus was turned 90°. The texts are sparse experimentations of different styles of scripts and crosses: simple crosses, staurograms and magical crosses (with a little circle at every extremity) and names (with status designation, patronym and title with abbreviation) – probably in the context of some kind of business or professional education. At the bottom side of the sheet, drawing including circles; on the verso, two more crosses and the beginning of the status designation Aurel--. |
Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
Date from | 350 |
Date to | 499 |
Dating criteria | Dated 4/5th in ed. pr. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | - |
Accession number | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 17744 |