| Artefact ID | 1263 |
| TM ID | TM 12178 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 41 (Kūm Awšīm) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Archive/Dossier | Archive |
| Description | P.Mich. VI 378: Account of Tax Payments in Kind. Copy of a list of wheat payments made during the course of one year (8th indiction) by different persons, mainly Neilammon and Onnophris, sons of Ptollas. Initial sequence of Christian symbol, cryptogram and isopsephism: cross, ΧΜΓ and ϙθ (= 99 = amen). |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 400 |
| Date to | 499 |
| Dating criteria | Dated to the first half of the 4th c. in ed. pr. but this date has been questioned by Gascou 1994: 46 who prefers a date in 5th c. for typological and palaeographical reasons (see also Sijpesteijn 1986: 118 about the date of the Karanis "Michigan receipts", part of the same archive); a date now accepted in the Michigan/APIS catalogue. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Found with P.Mich. VI 379 and 399-411 and is part of the same archive. |
| Accession number | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 5269 o [P.Mich.inv. 5269 o] |
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