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Artefact ID	1546
TM ID	TM 64603
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	28 (al-Bahnasā)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Subliterary
Language	Greek
Description	P.Oxy. VII 1058, van Haelst 955: Short prayer by Apphouas Probably used as an amulet, this small papyrus (9.2 x 11.9 cm) contains a prayer for help for its author Apphouas. The formulation at the start Ὁ θ(εὸ)ς τῶν παρακειμένων σταυρῶν (God of Crosses) is not attested elsewhere. Jordan 2001 reads δορλον in lines 3–4, and suggests that line 6 is the beginning of Psalm 90:1, ὀ κατο[ικῶν. Blumell/Wayment 2015 agree with the correction in the last line, but not with the attribution to Psalms. They further see what Jordan reads as a ρ at the end of line 3 as a badly legible correction by the scribe, who rather corrected δολον to δουλον. The unrelated verso seems to have been used to test a stylus, showing only a few single words written in different directions, by a different hand than the recto. Nomen sacrum: θς.
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical), Christian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from	300
Date to	499
Dating criteria	Palaeography
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Found in al-Bahnasā (Oxyrhynchos) during the excavations of Bernard Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt between 1896 and 1907.
Accession number	Princeton, Theological Seminary P. 3

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition
• Blumell, Lincoln H. and Thomas A. Wayment. 2015. Christian Oxyrhynchus. Texts, Documents, and Sources. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. 359-361, No. 101.

Editio princeps
• Hunt, Arthur S. 1910. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part VII (P. Oxy. VII). London: Egypt Exploration Fund. 212, No. 1058.

Additional bibliography
• Chapa, Juan. 2011. “Su Demoni e Angeli. Il Salmo 90 Nel Suo Contesto.” In I Papiri Letterari Cristiani. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi in Memoria di Mario Naldini. Firenze, 10-11 Giugno 2010, edited by Guido Bastianini and Angelo Casanova. Studi e Testi di Papirologia. Nuova Serie (Stud.Test.Pap. N.S.) 13. Firenze: Istituto Papyrologico «G. Vitelli». 85-90: 86, No. 19.
• de Bruyn, Theodore S., and Jitse H.F. Dijkstra. 2011. “Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements: A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP) 48: 163-216. 200-201, No. 109.
• del Grande, Carolus. 1928. Liturgiae Preces Hymni Christianorum e Papyris Collecti. Naples: Federico & Ardia. 23.
• Jordan, David. 2001. “Ψήγματα κριτικής, 4-10 [συνέχεια του ἀρθου "Ψήγματα κριτικής", Ευλιμένη 1 (2000), 127-131].” ΕΥΛΙΜΕΝΗ 2. 155-159: 156-157.
• Leclercq, Henri. 1937. "Papyrus." In Dictionnaire d'Archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie 13(1), fasc. 144–145, edited by Fernand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané, col. 1370-1520: col. 1440-1441.
• Preisendanz, Karl. 1974. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner. 214, No. Christliches P 6b.
• van Haelst, Joseph. 1976. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 307-308, No. 955.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1546", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1546

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TM 64603 / LDAB 5833 DCLP (PN) Kyprianos M424

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