Artefact ID | 1198 |
TM ID | TM 38624 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
Text content | Documentary |
Language | Greek |
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 criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
Date from | 375 |
Date to | 499 |
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 date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Unknown provenance |
Accession number | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 19801 Pap (previously G 19941 Pap). |