| Artefact ID | 225 |
| TM ID | TM 17311 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 30 (al-Ašmūnayn) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Archive/Dossier | Archive |
| Description | P.Ryl. IV 617: Petition to the Emperors. Petition from a certain Aurelia Isidora claiming that she has been taxed on her land at a wrong rate. The petition contains an expression suggestive of Christian belief since the emperors are addressed as lords of "us, those in this world" (πρὸς τὸ ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἐν τῷ κόσμ̣[ῳ τούτῳ). which suggests a reminiscence of 1 Jn 4:17 (Choat (2006:75). Recto: official hand, text written along the fibres; Verso: travel accounts from Theophanes' archive (TM 17317). |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts |
| Date from | 317 |
| Date to | 324 |
| Dating criteria | 317? The document is dated in the period of the joint reign of Constantine and Licinius when their three children filled the office of Caesar (317-324); the mistake in the nomenclature of two out of three children makes it all but certain that P.Ryl. IV 617 belongs to the first year of this period (P.Ryl. IV 617 intro). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | - |
| Accession number | Manchester, John Rylands Library, Gr. 617 Ro. |
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