4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1609
TM ID	TM 33549
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	P. Münch. 3 127; Pap. graec. mon. 41: Letter from Kallinikos to Elias The sheet (7.5 x 15 cm) containing this letter is complete, but its contents are not entirely clear. Following the greeting, the writer Kallinikos reminds the recipient Elias to not forget the friends and συμμυστῶν (“initiates”, line 6) and reproaches him for not reacting to his first letter, in which he claims he could not have been mistaken to be un-initiated (ἀμύητως, line 7). The ed.pr. presumes this use of συμμύστης can identify sender and recipient as members of a possibly Christian (?) religious sect or pagan congregation. The rest of the letter concerns κεράμια of oil which Kallinikos needs, since a Leonidas is in Babylon this year.
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian onomastics
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; the ed.pr. places it in the second half of the 4th century, but allows an earlier or later date.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown provenance
Accession number	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek P. gr. 41

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