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Artefact ID1669
TM IDTM 33185 / TM 33186
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P. Lond. 5 1653 + P. Lond. 5 1654: Register of Payments and Account of Expenses 
The recto and verso of this originally square sheet (11 3/4 in. x 1 ft. 1/4 in. = 29.85 x 31.1 cm) were edited as separate documents, and written in different hands, but concern the same estates.
P.Lond. V 1653 (recto): Register of Payments. Names listed include Abraamios (l. 15), Ioannes (l. 18, 26, 48, 49, 50), Petros (l. 35, 62), Theodoros (l. 56), Moyses πρεσβ[…] (l. 40) and τοῦ ἁγίου Ἄ[πα] Ἰωάννου (l. 49-50). The ed.pr. assigns the origin of the document to the Panopolite nome.
P.Lond. V 1654 (verso): Account of Expenses. The name Kosmas is listed in line 12.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography; Clarysse 2016 has tended to a later date (5th/6th c.).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Unknown provenance; acquired by the British Museum in 1907.

Accession number

London, British Library Pap 1757 Ro

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Bell, Harold I. 1917. Greek Papyri at the British Museum. Catalogue, with Texts. Vol. V. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. 12-14, No. 1653.
• Bell, Harold I. 1917. Greek Papyri at the British Museum. Catalogue, with Texts. Vol. V. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. 15, No. 1654.

Additional bibliography
• Clarysse, Willy. 2016. “Kosmas and Damianus in Egyptian Onomastics.” In Mélanges Jean Gascou: Textes et Études Papyrologiques (P.Gascou), edited by Jean-Luc Fournet and Arietta Papaconstantinou. Paris: Collège de France. 559-564: 560-561, No. 3.

Authors
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023
Suggested citation
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1669", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1669
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