| Artefact ID | 1276 |
| TM ID | TM 33251 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 62 (Ihnāsiyā al-Madīna) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | BGU III 948: Private letter Letter sent by Kophaena to her son Theodoulos, with prayers to God pantokrator for his good health. She complains that he has not contacted her, although she has been ill for 13 months. She asks him for 10 pounds of linen thread to weave him a coat, for grain and for 6 pounds of black wool. Finally, she greets Theodoulos from his son Zenon, his sister Kyrilla and their children. Recto: the writing is a large, thick semi-uncial hand (after Wilcken's description); at the top of the letter, a sequence of three of the Christian cryptogram ΧΜΓ; colloquial language. Verso: address, with final staurogram. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian onomastics, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 350 |
| Date to | 499 |
| Dating criteria | Assigned to c. IV/Vth c. in ed. pr., probably for palaeographical reasons. The use of χμγ might rather point to 5th than 4th c. [VS]. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | - |
| Accession number | Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, without number (original lost in the fire of the ship that transported it, in the harbour of Hamburg, in 1899). |
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