The phrase "a text dated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific text that has a date associated with it, often to indicate when it was written or published.
Example: "In the archives, we found a text dated March 15, 1920, that detailed the events of that year."
Alternatives: "a document dated" or "a letter dated".
According to a text dated to AD 533, a man was termed "poor" if he did not have 50 gold coins (aurei), which was a modest though not negligible sum.
A text dated 1235 mentions that in Hangzhou City alone there was the West Lake Poetry Club, the Buddhist Tea Society, the Physical Fitness Club, the Anglers' Club, the Occult Club, the Young Girls Choruss, the Exotic Foods Club, the Plants and Fruits Club, the Antique Collectors' Club, the Horse-Lovers' Club, and the Refined Music Society.
In establishing the fundamental layout of the new capital, the Ming reached for a suitably weighty touchstone, drawing on the teachings of the Kaogong Ji (roughly translated as "regulations of construction"), a text dating from the fifth century BC; part of the Rites of Zhou, an ancient Confucian manual of bureaucracy and organisational theory.
In a lexicographical text dated c. 543 CE, we learn that Jīng was non-sticky jīng means non-glutinous rice 稻.
The first written specimen of Friulian (apart from a doubtful 12th-century inscription) is a short text dating to approximately 1300, followed by numerous documents in prose, as well as some poems, up to the end of the 16th century, when a rich poetic tradition began.
A hieroglyphic text dating to 493 mentions two further kings of Quiriguá, but interruptions in the text make the reading and decipherment of their names particularly difficult.
References to an artificial limb can be found in the Rigveda, an ancient Sanskrit text dating to around 1400 B.C., and later in Herodotus, but the earliest prosthesis yet recovered belonged to the city of Capua: a leg from about 300 B.C., made of bronze, iron, and wood.
The earliest extant copy of the song's text dates from 1407, but its origins are much earlier.
Liu Hui's 3rd-century commentary on The Nine Chapters is the most important text dating from before the 13th century that contains proofs in the modern sense.
The Mongolian vertical script language developed at the end of the 12th century; the oldest extant text dates from roughly 1225.
The Wall Street Journal's Web site nicks nonsubscribers $4.95 per article, but several common library databases give you free access to full text dating back to 1984.
