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Artefact ID1198
TM IDTM 38624
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB XIV 12045: Order of payment.

Sent to Apollos, wine seller, from Athanasios, instructing to provide for meat a 1 200 silver talents. Dated to 6th Phamenoth of 3rd indiction.

The text runs across the fibres; written by a skilled hand. On the verso, also written against the fibres, appears the Christian cryptogram ΧΜΓ and traces of two lines are discernible though not legible.

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from375
Date to499
Dating criteria

The date in 7th c. given in ed. pr. was revised on palaeographical ground by Worp 2010: 169 and reassigned to late 4th or 5th c.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Unknown provenance

Accession number

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 19801 Pap (previously G 19941 Pap).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Sijpesteijn, Pieter J. 1975 [1974]. "Some Byzantine Papyri from the Amsterdam Papyrus Collection." Talanta 6, p. 39-40 (App. to 2). 

Additional bibliography

Worp, Klaas. 2010. "A Note on the Use of Talents, Drachmas and Obols in Byzantine Egypt." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 172, 167-174.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1198", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1198
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