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Artefact ID197
TM IDTM 32814
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB X 10755: beginning of a mutilated letter.

Letter addressed by a certain Agathos to his "Lord, father and master" without name. Trinity formula (ὁμ[ο]λογῶ ἐναντίον τοῦ θεοῦ | πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος) and mention of a petition, before the papyrus breaks off.

The editor replaced this letter within Fl. Abinnaeus' archive (ca. 342-351) but Barnes 1985: 373, n. 16 rejected this suggestion (= BL VIII 361).

 

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from325
Date to375
Dating criteria

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale Wiss. Ges. gr. 150 + Wiss. Ges. gr. 70

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps:

• Lesaulnier, J. 1968. "Un nouveau papyrus des archives d'Abinnaeus (Première mention épistolaire de la formule trinitaire)." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 3, 155-156.

Additional bibliography:

• Barnes, Timothy D. 1985. “The Career of Abinnaeus.” Phoenix 39, 368-374.

Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Studia Antiqua Australiensia 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 161.

 

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 197", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/197