Colt Papyrus 60.
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Colt Pap. 60
Title:
Colt Papyrus 60.
Created:
54 AH / Oct.-Nov. 674.
Description:
1 fragment : papyrus ; 33.2 x 18.1 cm
Provenance:
Found at Nessana in 1937 by the Colt Archaeological Institute.
Notes:
Requisition of wheat and oil, a bilingual entagion in Arabic and Greek listing taxes owed by the local community; found in Auja al-Hafir (Nestana or Nessana), South Palestine.
"Written in the month of November of the 3rd indiction, year 54 according to the Arabs, by the hand of Alexanderson of Ammonius." Cf. Excavations at Nessana, v. 3 (1958), p. 181.
Light brown, fine papyrus, written in brown ink.
The entagion was cut from the top of a roll of papyrus. Top, bottom, and left margins are intact, the right badly damaged. The protocol (a protective cover at the beginning of a papyrus roll, bearing caliph/governor's name and formulae) suggests that this entagion comes from the time of Umayyad caliph Muawiya (40-60 AH / 661-80 CE).
Language:
Arabic and Greek
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