2012/11/01 by Pasquale Orsini, Willy Clarysse · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Biblical Studies and Interpretation #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.2143/etl.88.4.2957937
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Literary papyri are notoriously difficult to date because they bear no accurate date 2 , and only few of them can be dated thanks to circumstantial evidence (archaeological or historical context) 3 or because they belong to a dated archive 4 .In a few instances it is possible to give a terminus post, when they are written on the back of a documentary text 5 , or ante quem,