| Artefact ID | 996 |
| TM ID | TM 36870 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Giss. I 55: Letter from one priest to another. The hand is an elegant upright semi-cursive, one of a professional scribe. The text runs along the fibres; very careful layout with eistheseis (l. 2 and in final greetings); use of nomina sacra. Similarities in the phrasing with P.Lond. VI 1925. Final greetings were written by another hand. Verso: address, along the fibres. |
| Selection criteria | Mention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Nomina sacra |
| Date from | 350 |
| Date to | 450 |
| Dating criteria | Dated 6th c. in ed. pr. but according to Fournet 2008: 307, n. 2, the letter does not belong to the archive of Dioscorus and is palaeographically datable to the end of 4th or 5th c. after the photo. Kim 2011: 111 notes that this letter shows the persistence of the use of the letter structure of the 3rd and 4th c. possibly even in the 5th century; no cross – as would be expected for 5th c. Christian letters. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Purchased in al-Ašmūnayn in 1902 by E. Kornemann. |
| Accession number | Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek P. Giss. inv. 6 |
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