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Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Literary
Material: Papyrus
Items: 1
Size: 33.5 x 18.0 cm.
Lines: 26 lines, (ii) 10 lines; (b): (i) 16 lines, (ii) 26 lines
Negative: Transparency
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Date: before 1000 AD
Provenance:  Unknown
Acquisition: Gift of Edmund Harris Kase, Jr.
Language: Coptic
Genre: Biographical text or hagiographical work (?)
Author:  Unknown
Type of Text/Title of Work: Unknown
Content: Both sides of the papyrus have parts of two columns of text. As mounted, front (f) is with the fibers, and back (b) is against.  There is pagination (13) on back.  (f), col. i: someone (the subject) going from place to place, being called and guided by the Holy Spirit. (b) col. ii: someone receives a blessing, and the "Christ-loving man" tells the narrator ("us") that he spent 300 nomismata as chorêgia for a certain topos.
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