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Artefact ID	1428
TM ID	TM 33256
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	BGU 3 984: Letter from Markianos to his brother. Markianos requests that his brother offer aid to their mutual friend Hathres by lending him four gold nomisma. 28 lines of text on recto, right margin intact, left portion of text missing. Marks of one line of writing remaining on the verso. Part of the farewell on line 27 was initially read as “[ὁ θεὸς κ]αθʼ ὑπονοια”, but has since been adapted to “[ἡ ἀγ]αθὴ πρόνοια”, reminiscent of e.g., P.Ross.Georg. 3 9, l. 21-22 (4th c.) und P.Iand. 6 128, l. 7 + 19-20 (5th c.).
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from	350
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography: Dated to the 4th c. in ed.pr., and to the end of the 4th c. in Gonis 1997.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown. Collection Rudolf Mosse in 1894.
Accession number	Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 7960

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Schubart, Wilhelm. 1903. Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen (later Staatlichen) Museen zu Berlin III. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 312, no. 984.

Additional bibliography
• Ghedini, Giuseppe. 1923. Lettere Cristiane dai Papiri Greci del III e IV Secolo. Milano: Presso l'amministrazione di Aegyptus e la società editrice Vita e Pensiero. 197-201, No. 28.
• Gonis, Nikolaos. 1997. "Notes on Two Epistolary Conventions", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) 119, 148-154: 152.
• Leclercq, Henri. 1929. "Lettres Chrétiennes." In Dictionnaire d'Archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie 8(2), fasc. 90–91, edited by Fernand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané, col. 2683-2885: col. 2789, No. 28.
• Mandilaras, Basil G. 1973. The Verb in the Greek Non-Literary Papyri. Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sciences. 276, §622; 278n2, §633(1).
• Naldini, Mario. 1968. Il Cristianesimo in Egitto. Lettere Private nei Papiri dei Secoli II-IV. Firenze: Le Monnier. 237-239, No. 55.
• Papathomas, Amphilichios. 2007. "Textkritische Bemerkungen zu Berliner Papyrusbriefen", Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 53, 2007, 182–200: 185–186.
• Wilcken, Ulrich. 1903. “Papyrus-Urkunden.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 2, 385-396: 387.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022, "Artefact ID 1428", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1428

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TM 33256 DDbDP (PN) BerlPap

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