Get Social With Us

4CARE-ARTEFACTS

ARTEFACT IDENTIFIERS

Artefact ID245
TM IDTM 832707
Findspot (DEChriM ID)12   (Ismant al-Ḫarāb)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageCoptic
Archive/DossierDossier
Description

P.KellisCopt. II 60 [P.Kellis VII 60]

Letter from [Petros (?)] to his mother in Coptic (L) with Greek address, broken along folds into at least nine strips, not all of them joining, state of preservation rather fragmentarily and prevents reading any coherent text after line 5; traces of other text on verso

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities, Coptic language
Date from370
Date to370
Dating criteria

Archaeological context, possible connection to dossier of Petros letters (P.KellisCopt. I 38, P.KellisCopt. I 39, P.KellisCopt. I 40, and P.KellisCopt. I 41)

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

House 3, room 9, deposit 3 west doorway

Accession number

P.KellisCopt. II 60 [P.Kellis VII 60]

Inv. Nr. P56 C(a)ii

current location unknown, probably excavation or SCA storage

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Gardner, Iain, Anthony Alcock, and Wolf-Peter Funk. 2014. Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis II P. Kell. VII (P. Kell. Copt. 57–131), Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 16. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 27-28 plus image on CD rom.

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 245", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/245
External links
Gallery