Arjava, Antti

Lehtinen, Marjo Susanna

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https://helda.helsinki.fiP. Petra V 87. Short DocumentArjava, AnttiAmerican center of oriental research2018Arjava , A & Lehtinen , M S 2018 , P. Petra V 87. Short Document . in A Arjava , J Frösén &J Kaimio (eds) , The Petra Papyri V . Petra papyri , no. V , American center of orientalresearch , Amman , pp. 293-294 .http://hdl.handle.net/10138/312122publishedVersionDownloaded from Helda, University of Helsinki institutional repository.This is an electronic reprint of the original article.This reprint may differ from the original in pagination and typographic detail.Please cite the original version.87. SHORT DOCUMENTInv. 82EField No. XIXeGlass Plate 285Plate CLX6 x 20.5 cmtop margin 0.5 cmbottom margin 7 cm mid-6th c.?This small document could be rolled open without losing much between its layers. It contained fifteen linesof text, and probably nothing is missing before the first line, though the top margin is only 0.5 cm. However, inall only some six centimeters of text is preserved from the middle of the lines. Although we cannot verify the document’s original width, it was written transversa charta across the fibers. The handwriting is quite clear,with sloping, mostly capital letters. It may belong to Flavius Patrikios, son of Diphilos, whose very similar signature is preserved in 35 18–28. That document derives from either 533 or 563, but probably the same person recurs in 3 and 5, both dated securely to 538. This would help to place the present text in the middle decades of the sixth century. The document’s nature cannot be determined, except that it was neither of accounts nor mere notes and must have had some financial purpose linked with a church.↑1 ] τοῖϲ θεοφιλ[εϲτάτοιϲ . . . to the most God-pleasing (plural) . . . ] ἐκληϲιαϲτικ[ . . . of the church . . .    ][]ηϲ[4 ] ἁ̣γιωτ(ατη- ) ἐκληϲία̣[ . . . most holy church . . . ] ἰν̣δικτίω̣ν̣[ . . . indiction . . . ] ἀπὸ μὲν αὐτῶ[ν . . . from them . . .       ][8 ] ἰδ̣ίω μου κ[ινδύνω . . . with my own personal [liability] . . . ] ε τ[ ]μ̣ένων λιμ̣ι[̣ ἰν]δικτ(ίων- ) κ(αὶ) [ . . . indiction and . . .12    ]ω̣δεκ[ ]α̣ιϲ̣ τ̣[α]ῖϲ̣̣ [ ]τουε̣ν̣15 ]ων νο(μιϲμάτων) δε[ . . . solidi . . .  vacat2 ἐκκληϲιαϲτικ[   4 αγιτω Pap.   ἐκκληϲία[   11 ιν]δικτ Pap.   κ Pap.   15  Pap.294 THE PETRA PAPYRI V5] ἰν̣δικτίω̣ν̣[ : in the Petra papyri, the word ἰνδικτίων has appeared only in the genitive; in most cases, it is abbreviated (as here in l. 11), and, where it is written in full, it is always ἰνδικτίονοϲ. The two last letters are very faint and might be something else, but no abbreviation mark is visible. 10 ]μ̣ένων λιμ̣ι[̣ : the last letter has a vertical stroke, too long to be, e.g., a pi. In Egypt, such a sequence of letters is attested only in a military context, in the word λίμιτον (Lat. limes). Although this cannot be excluded here, the letters are too uncertain to make it more than a weak hypothesis.15 νο(μιϲμάτων) δε[ : the number of solidi was probably between ten and nineteen, cf. l. 12, which may possibly contain the same numeral.COMMENTARYA. ARJAVA, M. LEHTINENPLATE CLXP. PETRA V 87

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