| Artefact ID | 1206 |
| TM ID | TM 17537 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Ross.Georg. V 60 Vo: Account of expenses Account of expenses for service remuneration in wheat in two columns. According to the edition, the first line of column 1, with the title of the document, ends with a cross written over the ου, see l. 1n. Text written across the fibres. |
| Selection criteria | Christian onomastics, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 391 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | The text on the recto is a letter addressed to the strategos or exactor of the Hermopolites nome dated June 10, 391 (TM 17536). The account on the verso must have been written sometime after. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Probably found in Al-Ašmūnayn. Part of the private collection of Nikolay Petrovič Lichačev, which had been brought from Cairo in 1907, with further acquisitions from Paris and from Grigol Zereteli. First transferred to the Museum of Palaeography of Academy of Sciences (Leningrad), it was then brought to the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Most of the papyri from the Academy of Science are now at the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg (see Chepel 2018 and Zereteli 1930). |
| Accession number | St Petersburg, Academy of Sciences, Institute of History number unknown |
ARTEFACT IDENTIFIERS
Json data
