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Artefact ID1565
TM IDTM 699686
Findspot (DEChriM ID)24   (Dišnā)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

P. Bodmer LIV, P. Bodmer 54: Agricultural cadaster 
Remaining fragment of a land register codex (20.2 x 13 cm), listing arable land (γῆ σπορίμη), vineyard land (ἄμπελος or ἀμπελών) and an as of yet unknown land type χερσοφ[…] in arouras. Lists some 50 names over 43 lines, including Dorotheos (l. 11 and 18) and a Διάκων (l. 33). The top and side borders were cut to size, for the fragment to be reused in the binding of another codex.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography; Fournet 2015 further links the contents of P. Bodmer 54, 55 and 56, such as taxation rates, devaluation of money and inflation to place it in the 4th c.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Unclear provenance; Reused as binding of P. Bodmer 23 together with P. Bodmer 55 and 56. Reportedly found at Ǧabal Abū Mannāʿ near Dishna (Upper Egypt) in 1952 (part of the “Dishna Papers” alongside several other Bodmer Papyri), possibly the location of a Pachomian monastery, see Robinson 2011, Lundhaug 2018.

Accession number

Geneva, Fondation Bodmer 54 (LIV)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Fournet, Jean-Luc. 2015. “Anatomie d’une bibliothèque de l’Antiquité tardive: l’inventaire, le faciès et la provenance de la ‘Bibliothèque Bodmer’.” Adamantius. Journal of the Italian Research Group on “Origen and the Alexandrian Tradition” 21. 8-40: 26-30, No. 1.

Authors
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023
Suggested citation
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1565", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1565
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