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TM 85886 / LDAB 5662 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/85886

previously also TM 64438 (double)

Metadata

Date: late 4th century AD: AD 375 - 399

Provenance: Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab) - Egypt (Western desertThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Coptic (Subakhmimic alias Lykopolitan dialect) / Greek

Coptic letter with Greek initial greeting and address

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: sheet

Content (beta!): letter including a magical spell

Culture & genre: religion — magic, exorcism (religion: christian, Manichaean)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation + address

More info: 4CARE/DEChriM4th century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt / Deconstructing Early Christian Metanarratives => 1338 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM

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