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Artefact ID1397
TM IDTM 641996
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

Gonis 2015, no. 10: Deed of surety.

Lower-right part of a deed of surety for a number of stolarchai, probably a liturgical undertaking. We have the end of the document proper, followed by the subscriptions of ten guarantors. The notarial subscription, by the nomikos Hermanoubis, is preceded and followed by a staurogram.

The writing is along the fibres; scattered traces of ink on the back.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from350
Date to399
Dating criteria

Dated 4/5th c. in ed. pr. but not only the closest parallel for the type of notarial signature is, according to ed., SB VI 9219.25 (319, Hermopolis) but onomastics strongly suggest that it was written before 5th c. [VS].

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Provenance unknown.

Accession number

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library P.CtYBR inv. 2088.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Gonis, Nikolaos. 2015. "Seventeen Beinecke Papyri." Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 61, 323-351: no. 10.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1397", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1397
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