| Artefact ID | 1418 |
| TM ID | TM 64557 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Wood |
| Writing medium | Codex, Tablet |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | T.Berol. 14000; Cribiore no. 404: School book Incomplete notebook made of 9 waxed tablets (17.5 x 9.5 cm). Description from Cribiore no. 404: On the first tablet bisyllabic words divided into syllables on the left, with additions and multiplications on the right separated by a curved line. On tablet 2 and on side A of 3 there are only confused traces, while side B exhibits a combination of letters between two crosses followed by the words phōs and zoē and by letters placed in the shape of a cross forming the word emmanoēl. Only side B of tablet 4 is written with a maxim [Menander Sententia 889] inscribed as a teacher's model. Tablet 5 shows rows of letters practiced by the pupil, tablets 6, 7, and 8 contain numbers, and tablet 9 a list of words in theta divided into syllables and more numbers. About phōs and zoē ("light and life"), see Guarducci 1978, 439-440 and 456-458. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 499 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. Dated 4/5th in ed. pr.; 4th c. in Guarducci 1978; Cribiore 1996 suggests a later date. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Purchased by W.L. Schubart from Ali in Giza in 1912. Possibly from Tebtynis. |
| Accession number | Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 14000 / T. Berol. 14000 |
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