SB XXIV 16219: una lettera di Atias in difesa di una donna

Abstract

The first edition of this 7^th-century document considered the text written along the fibers as the recto of the papyrus, and the line written on it as the opening of a document. Actually, this line is the address written on the verso of a letter, the beginning of which is preserved on the other side, the recto, against the fibres. In it, the dux Atias intervenes in favour of a woman in a matter that is no longer reconstructable. This paper gives a revised and full edition of the papyrus.