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Artefact ID995
TM IDTM 22368
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

P.Lips. I 58: Guarantee

Sheet of papyrus of which the upper part is missing. It contains a declaration by Aurelios Horion, priest, son of Iulianos, promising Flavios Isidoros, official of the officium of the praeses Thebaidis that he will send in person the entagia for clothes that he received from Apollonios, son of Besas, and from Mikkalos, son of Theodoros to Alexandria.

Recto: the writing runs along the fibres; verso is blank.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions
Date from371
Date to371
Dating criteria

Dated Octοber 8, 371 (Gratianus cos 2 and Probus cos, Phaophi 10).

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context

From Upper Egypt; written in Lykopolis. Purchased in 1903.

Accession number

Leipzig, Universität 585 (P.Lips. inv. 585) [already missing from the inventory in May 1978]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Mitteis, Ludwig. 1906. Griechische Urkunden der Papyrussammlung zu Leipzig I. Leipzig, no. 58 (no plate). 

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 995", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/995