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Artefact ID1091
TM IDTM 18728
Findspot (DEChriM ID)30   (al-Ašmūnayn)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

SPP XX 86; CPR I 19; Chrest.Mitt. 69: Petition

Petition from Aurelia Demetria alias Ammonia to Sallustius Olympiodoros, principalis of Hermopolis, concerning a dispute over the execution of a purchase (land). While exposing the matter, she explains the former agreement she reached with Eous, wife of Saprikos, and invokes Dioskourides, priest of the Church (l. 8: Διοσ[κ]ουρίδου πρεσ̣β̣υ̣τ̣έ̣ρου τῆς ἐκκλησίας), who served as a witness for this agreement between the two wealthy women.

This Demetria alias Ammonia is the mother of Aurelia Charite whose family is thought to be Christian already in the early 4th c. (Bagnall 1995).

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions
Date from330
Date to330
Dating criteria

Consular date on l. 26: Fl. Gallicanus, Valerius, Tullianus, Mecheir 6 = January 31, 330.

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 2085

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Wessely, Carl. 1895. Corpus Papyrorum Raineri I, Griechische Texte I, Rechtsurkunden. Vienna, no. 19.

Additional publications

• Wessely, Carl. 1921. Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde, XX, Catalogus Papyrorum Raineri. Series Graeca. Pars I. Leipzig, no. 86.

• Mitteis, Ludwig. 1912. Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, II Bd. Juristischer Teil, II Hälfte Chrestomathie, Berlin-Leipzig, no. 69.

Additional bibliography

• Bagnall, Roger. 1995. "Charite's Christianity." The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32, 37-40.

Judge, E. A. and Pickering, S. R., 1977. "Papyrus Documentation of church and community in Egypt to the mid-fourth century". Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 20, 47-77 (esp. 63).

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1091", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1091