Date III-IV AD
Text type Documentary
Statement Letter
Language Greek
Format Sheet
Material Papyrus
Inventory number P.Monts.Roca inv. 247
Edition P.Monts.Roca
Edition volume IV
Edition number 94
Published title Private letter mentioning a hieroglyph carver
Edition editor S. Torallas Tovar – K. A. Worp
Edition date 2014
Location Fondo Roca-Puig
Other side Addressee of the letter
Associated MSS
Provenance Oxyrhynchus?
Period Roman-Byzantine
Date III-IV AD
Text type Documentary
Statement Letter
Subject Letter to a pagan priest
Language Greek
Illustrations no
Attested on other papyri no
Format Sheet
Material Papyrus
Kollesis no
Dimensions 16.7 x 8.1
Margins yes
Top margin yes
Bottom margin yes
Line beginnings yes
Line ends yes
Palimpsest. Traces of the scrptio inferior visible on the verso
Fibre orientation Horizontal
Ink Black
Hand Cursive, irregular
Marginal annotations no
Corrections yes
Lectional signs no
State of conservation Damaged
Bibliography S. Torallas Tovar – K. A. Worp (ed. pr.), “94. Private letter mentioning a hieroglyph carver”, S. Torallas Tovar – K. A. Worp (ed.), Greek Papyri from Montserrat (P.Monts.Roca IV), Scripta Orientalia 1, Barcelona, 2014: 283-286. A. de Frutos García, “Textos documentales y paraliterarios”, S. Torallas Tovar (coord.), La mano del escriba: Recorrido por los tesoros manuscritos de la Abadía de Montserrat. Scripta Orientalia 2. Barcelona, 2015: 107-113. A. de Frutos García, “Cat. 57. Letter Mentioning a Hieroglyph Carver”, Pharaoh’s Reeds. A papyrus journey up the Nile, Barcelona, 2016: 114.
Other catalogues 219260
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