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Artefact ID	1648
TM ID	TM 31788
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	28 (al-Bahnasā)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	P.Oxy. XIV 1680, P.Oxy. 14 1680: Letter to Apollo Missing the first few lines, the writer of this letter (14 x 11.6 cm) expresses great worry for the safety of their father Apollo, ε[ὔχομ]αι τῷ θεῷ (line 3) to receive him back home in good health. The writer explicitly fears something happening to the father, and that they will not be able to identify the body, wishing to stamp a mark on his person to identify him. The letter ends with an offer of support, since the father may again be in debt (?) with Heraklios, the current ἐπίτροπος (overseer). The verso addresses the letter to [τῷ κυρίῳ] καὶ ἀγαπητῷ πατρὶ Ἀπόλλωνι; ἀγαπητός could be another indicator for the writer’s Christanity (see Naldini 1968 and inversely Wipszycka 1974).
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from	275
Date to	325
Dating criteria	Palaeography
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Found in al-Bahnasā (Oxyrhynchos) during the excavations of Bernard Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt between 1896 and 1907.
Accession number	London, Westminster School P. Oxy. 1680 (now lost, see Lujiendijk 2008, 32n29)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Grenfell, Bernard P. and Arthur S. Hunt. 1920. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part XIV (P. Oxy. XIV). London: Egypt Exploration Fund. 140-141, No. 1680.

Additional bibliography
• Burnet, Régis. 2003. L’Egypte Ancienne à Travers Les Papyrus. Vie quotidienne. Paris: Pygmalion. 273, No. 213.
• Farid, Farouk. 1981. "The Prescript of P. Oxy 1680." Anagennesis 1: 11-18.
• Ghedini, Giuseppe. 1923. Lettere Cristiane dai Papiri Greci del III e IV Secolo. Milano: Presso l'amministrazione di Aegyptus e la società editrice Vita e Pensiero. 134-137, No. 15.
• Hunt, Arthur S. and Campbell C. Edgar. 1932/1952. Select Papyri. In Five Volumes. I. Non-Literary Papyri. Private Affairs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 366-367, No. 153.
• Leclercq, Henri. 1929. "Lettres Chrétiennes." In Dictionnaire d'Archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie 8(2), fasc. 90–91, edited by Fernand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané, col. 2683-2885: col. 2785, No. 15.
• Luijendijk, AnneMarie. 2008. Greetings in the Lord. Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: 32-38
• Meecham, Henry G. 1923. Light from Ancient Letters: Private Correspondence in the Non-literary Papyri of Oxyrhynchus of the First Four Centuries, and Its Bearing on New Testament Language and Thought. London: George Allen & Unwin. 121, 132.
• Naldini, Mario. 1968. Il Cristianesimo in Egitto. Lettere private nei papiri dei secoli II-IV. Firenze: Le Monnier. 161-163, No. 32.
• Skarsouli, Eleni. 2022. “Ein neuer Rekonstruktionsvorschlag zum Brief P.Oxy. XIV 1680.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) 221: 209-212.
• Winter, John Garrett. 1933. Life and Letters in the Papyri. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 62–63.
• Wipszycka, Ewa. 1974. “Remarques sur les lettres privées chrétiennes des IIe–IVe siècles. (A propos d’un livre de M. Naldini).” Journal of Juristic Papyrology (JJP) 18. 203-221: 215.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1648", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1648

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