Artefact ID | 1427 |
TM ID | TM 64364 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 62 (Ihnāsiyā al-Madīna) | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
Text content | Subliterary |
Language | Greek |
Description | BGU 3 955: Beginning lines of an amulet against headaches addressed to “Lord Sabaoth”. Wilcken does not see the use of this term as strictly indicative of a Christian author, referring to the syncretic incorporation of Jewish elements in pagan systems in the ed. pr. |
Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts |
Date from | 200 |
Date to | 499 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography: Roughly dated to 3rd to 5th c. by ed.pr. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Excavated by U. Wilcken and H. Schäfer at Herakleopolis in Jan–Mar 1899; contained in one of the 80 boxes of papyri lost to a fire breaking out on the ship upon its arrival in the Port of Hamburg in Spring 1899. |
Accession number | Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. number unknown. Now lost (burned). |