| Artefact ID | 14 |
| TM ID | TM 33118 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | SB VI 9605: private letter. First lines with names of sender and recipients lost; after Christian greetings ("Night and day I pray to the highest God and to the divine Providence of our Lord Jesus Christ for your health"), the sender warns his recipients that he has not been able to send his brother Kopreas to them because he was ill. Metzger (1961: 27) suggested that this letter belonged to the correspondence of Abinnaeus, commander of the cavalry stationed in a fortress in Dionysias, in the Arsinoites. But according to Naldini (1968: 231) and more recently to Gallazzi (2015: 172-173, n. 5), there are no conclusive clues justifying the attribution of this letter to the dossier. Recto: text written along the fibres. Verso blank. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 350 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | |
| Accession number | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 39838 |
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