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Artefact ID1094
TM IDTM 15733
Findspot (DEChriM ID)30   (al-Ašmūnayn)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

P.Herm.Landl. 1; P.Giss. I 117: Land register

Documentary codex listing landowners in the vicinity of Hermopolis for taxation purposes. Some of the taxpayers are identified by means of their church titles :

l. 200: Pkulis, deacon (diakon), 8 arouras

l. 298: Ammonianos, bishop (episkopos), 47 arouras

l. 305: Arion, bishop (episkopos), 19 arouras

l. 505: Makarios, monk (apotaktikos), 16 arouras

l. 512: Makarios, bishop (episkopos), 8 arouras

l. 552: Pankrates, priest (presbyteros), 19 arouras

Mention of church properties (ousiai ekklesias), l. 534.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Christian onomastics
Date from370
Date to380
Dating criteria

P.Herm.Landl. 1 and P.Herm.Landl. 2 were redated by J. Gascou, according to prosopography, around 375 rather than between 350 and 370 (Bagnall 1989). P.Herm.Landl. 1 was written 5 to 10 years before P.Herm.Landl. 2. See Gascou 1989: 89, no. 26 and Clarysse and Depauw 2013: 431.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context


Accession number

Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek P. Giss. 4

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition

• Sijpesteijn, Pieter J. and Worp, Klaas A. 1978. Zwei Landlisten aus dem Hermupolites (P.Giss. 117 und P.Flor. 71). Zutphen, no. 1.

• Worp, Klaas A. 1981. Das Aurelia Charite Archiv. Zutphen

Editio princeps

• Mayer, Paul. 1912. Griechische Papyri zu Giessen I, Griechische Papyri im Museum des oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins zu Giessen, Pt. III, nos. 58—126. Giessen, 117.

Additional bibliography

• Bagnall, Roger. 1979. "The date of the Hermopolite and registers: A review article." The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 16/3, 159-168.

• Depauw, Marc and Clarysse, Willy. 2013. "How Christian was Fourth Century Egypt? Onomastic Perspectives on Conversion." Vigiliae Christianae 67, 407-435.

• Gascou, Jean. 1989. “Les codices documentaires égyptiens,” Bibliologia 9, 73-74 and 89.

• Horsley, G. H. R. 1983. New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, 3. A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published in 1978. Macquarie University. § 104. 

• Judge, Edwin A. 1981. "Fourth-Century Monasticism in the Papyri." In Proceedings of the XVI Congr. of Papyrology, Chico,  613-620.

• Worp, Kl. 1994. "A Checklist of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt (A.D. 325 - c. 750)." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100, 283-318.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1094", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1094