Part one: : The Greek papyri--codex VII (Codex_Part_I_VII)
Virtually all details of the sale recorded on this fragment have been lost, but lines 4-5 present a puzzle of some interest. To judge from the structure of such documents as P. Cair. Isid. 92 and 104, either a regnal year or a consular date is expected in this position. Among the imperial and consul...
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Leiden Boston
Brill Academic Publishers
2012
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| In: | In: The Coptic Gnostic Library - A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, volume 4 |
| Series/Journal: | BrillOnline Reference Works
Coptic Gnostic Library |
| Further subjects: | B
Gnostic literature
B Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) B Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) B Nag Hammadi Codices |
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| Summary: | Virtually all details of the sale recorded on this fragment have been lost, but lines 4-5 present a puzzle of some interest. To judge from the structure of such documents as P. Cair. Isid. 92 and 104, either a regnal year or a consular date is expected in this position. Among the imperial and consular names that occurred during the period in which the papyrus can be placed on palaeographic grounds, the traces preserved would suit a Greek transliteration of Domitius, Vettius, or Tettius. Men of these names served as consuls in A.D. 316, 328, 333, 336, and 372, but I find no convincing way of restoring a known dating formula by the consuls of any of these years in the text. The probability, then, is that the date was given as a regnal year: the only serious possibilities appear to be Aurelian and the rebel Domitius Domitianus. Palaeography and the comparatively late date of the other documents used in this cover favor the latter (probably A.D. 297-8); but interesting as it would be to have a second attestation of Domitianus' revolt from Upper Egypt, the arguments for placing this text in his reign are by no means conclusive |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004228900_cgl_aCodex_Part_I_VII |