4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1660
TM ID	TM 32835
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	28 (al-Bahnasā)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	P.Oxy. XVII 2154, P.Oxy. 17 2154: Letter from Heraklides to Heras In this letter (25.1 x 16.2 cm) on urgent business, the recipient Heras is addressed as κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ (line 1). The author Heraklides implores him to send Antinous and more importantly his money (16 talents and 4000 drachmae), a carpenter Porit (whose brother has just (?) died), workmen, clerks, σίππια for τὸ ἱερὸν ἀναβολικὸν (line 19-20) and wool. He requires this the very same day, otherwise he particularly fears νὴ τὸν θεὸν (line 14) being imprisoned in the Temple of Hadrian if his affairs are not in order, since he has had to purchase wool at a high price (?). Mention of people from Paomis, a praepositus Kopreus, and Potammon, a soldier of the procurator as well as Teiras, whom Heras should send to Heraklides.
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Found in al-Bahnasā3 (Oxyrhynchos) during the excavations of Bernard Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt between 1896 and 1907.
Accession number	Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Oxy. 2154 (now lost, see Coles 1974)

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