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Artefact ID	1704
TM ID	TM 32846
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	PSI 10 1161: Letter from Ammon to his mother Kallinike This sheet (10 x 14 cm) is intact on all side but the bottom, where the letter is broken off. Following well-wishes παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ (line 4-5), Ammon asks his mother to remember him every day, since he is currently ἐπὶ ξένης (“in foreign lands”, line 7) alone, with οὐδένα ἄλλον εἰ μὴ μόν(ον) τὸν θεόν (“no one else, only God”, line 14–15). He wishes not to die far from home, and recalls a deceased Theaetetos, whom he calls ὁ εὔμυρος (line 19-20). The verso contains the address.
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; the ed.pr. places it in the 4th c.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown provenance
Accession number	Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca del Vaticano Pap. Gr. 13 /  Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca del Vaticano PSI 1161 (parallel)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Vitelli, Girolamo and Medea Norsa. 1932. Papiri Greci e Latini. Volume Decimo. N. 1097–1181. (PSI 10). Firenze: E. Ariani. 101-102, No. 1161.

Additional bibliography
• Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Studia Antiqua Australiensia 1. Turnhout: Brepols. 167. [listed]
• De Sanctis, Gaetano. 1932. “Una lettera cristiana dei Pap. Soc. Ital., X.” Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 60. 127-128.
• Koskenniemi, Heikki. 1956. Studien zur Idee und Phraseologie des griechischen Briefes bis 400 n. Chr. Annales Academia Scientiarum Fennicae Ser. B, Volume 102,2. Helsinki: Finnish Society. 110, 126.
• Naldini, Mario. 1965. Documenti dell'antichità cristiana. Papiri e pergamene greco-egizie della Raccolta Fiorentina. Firenze: Felice Le Monnier. 36-37, No. 47. Tav. XXVII.
• Naldini, Mario. 1968. Il Cristianesimo in Egitto. Lettere private nei papiri dei secoli II-IV. Firenze: Le Monnier. 290-292, No. 72.
• Norsa, Medea. 1929. Papiri Greci delle Collezioni Italiane. Scritture Documentarie, Fascicolo Primo. Roma: Libreria di Scienze e Lettere. 34. Tav. XX.
• Tibiletti, Giuseppe. 1979. Le lettere private nei papiri greci del III e IV secolo d.C. Tra paganesimo e cristianesimo. Milano: Vita e Pensiero. 344.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1704", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1704

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