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Artefact ID1171
TM IDTM 34285
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

PSI XV estr. 1562: Business letter

Fragment of a sheet preserving part of the body of a letter but the names of the correspondents are lost. The object of the letter concerns business matters involving cloth and money. The writer uses "Lord God" in an expression attesting to his Christian faith.

The hand is a small upright cursive running along the fibres. The letter continues on the verso, also long the fibres.

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Florence, Istituto Papirologico ’G. Vitelli’ PSI inv. 125

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition

•  Messeri, Gabriella. 2008. Papiri greci e latini vol. XV, edited by †V. Bartoletti, G. Bastianini, G. Messeri, F. Montanari, R. Pintaudi. Florence, no. 1562 (p. 366-369) and pl. LXXXVI.

Editio princeps

• Manfredi, Manfredo. 1966.  Dai Papiri della Societa Italiana, Estratto dal vol. XV dei P.S.I. Florence, 38-39.

Additional bibliography

• Andorlini, Isabella. 1998. “Ordinazione di stoffe già confezionate.” In Antinoe cent’anni dopo. Catalogo della mostra: Firenze, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, 10 luglio - 1 novembre 1998, edited by L. Del Francia Barocas. Florence, no. 211 (p. 182 and tav. VII).

• Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Turnhout, 167.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1171", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1171
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