| Artefact ID | 1403 |
| TM ID | TM 901315 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Messeri 42: Contract (lease) Fragment of a sheet of papyrus preserving the upper left part of an agreement between two persons from Oxyrhynchos. According to the ed., there is a cross – but very faint – before the (incomplete) post-consular formula, on l. 1. An initial serifed cross is indeed visible upon close examination of the papyrus, although it must have been written with a different ink than the rest of the text, an ink that faded away. Written along the fibres. Verso is blank. |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 375 |
| Date to | 425 |
| Dating criteria | Typology and palaeography. Dated to the end of 4th or beginning of 5th c. in ed. pr. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Purchased on the antiquity market in the early 1900s. |
| Accession number | Florence, Istituto Papirologico ’G. Vitelli’ PSI inv. 1148 |
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