Archiv des Autors: Kathrin Stenzel

Horoscope

BKT X 29 (P. 11831) This piece shows the earliest preserved Greek horoscope on papyrus. The text mostly consists of abbreviations and its five lines were written in dark ink on a small, rectangular sheet of papyrus. Based on the… Read More

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Certificate of Sacrifice

SB I 5943 (P. 13430) This papyrus from Theadelpheia features a fully preserved libellus, a certificate attesting the completion of a sacrifice to the gods, dated to 250 AD. The text contains 22 lines in Greek written on just one… Read More

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