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Artefact ID1371
TM IDTM 18959
Findspot (DEChriM ID)28   (al-Bahnasā)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

PSI VI 698: Contract of land division

Papyrus sheet damaged in many places; the left margin being completely lost. It contains a division of an inheritance, the bulk of which consisting of a plot of land. The eastern edge of the property is bordered by a property belonging to Annis, nun (monache).

Recto: cursive running along the fibres. Verso: running across the fibres, a list of names in two columns (unedited).

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities
Date from392
Date to392
Dating criteria

Dated to January 25, 392. Consulship of Flavius Tatianus and Fl. Symmachus (see Bagnall and Worp 1978: 115).

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context

Excavations of prof. Pistelli in al-Behnesa between 1910-1914 (see PSIonline.it).

Accession number

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML inv. 13905

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

Vitelli, Girolamo. 1920. Papiri greci e latini VI. Florence, no. 698.

Additional bibliography

• Bagnall, Roger and Worp, Klaas. 1978. The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt, Zutphen 1978.

• Blumell, Lincoln H. and Thomas A. Wayment. 2015. Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents and Sources. Waco, Texas, no. 123.

• Rémondon, Roger. 1972. "L'Eglise dans la société égyptienne à l'époque byzantine". Chronique d'Egypte 47: 260.

• Wipzsycka, Ewa. 2009. Moines et communautés monastiques en Egypte (IV-VIIIe sicèle). Warsaw: 610.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1371", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1371
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