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Artefact ID1096
TM IDTM 15734
Findspot (DEChriM ID)30   (al-Ašmūnayn)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

P.Herm.Landl. 2; P.Flor. I 71: Land register

Documentary codex, or rather notebook (cm 28 x 28), listing landowners in the vicinity of Hermopolis for taxation purposes. Some of the taxpayers are identified by means of their church titles (most of them are already listed in the earlier (c. 5 years) register P.Herm.Landl. 1):

l. 147: Dios, bishop (episkopos), 122 arouras (not in P.Herm.Landl. 1).

l. 510: Ammonianos, bishop (episkopos), 47 arouras 

l. 519: Arion, bishop (episkopos), 19 arouras 

l. 722: Makarios, monk (apotaktikos), 16 arouras 

l. 731: Makarios, bishop (episkopos), 8 arouras 

l. 771: Pankrates, priest (presbyteros), owning 19 arouras

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. 2 was written 5 to 10 years after P.Herm.Landl. 1. See Gascou 1989: 89, no. 26 and Clarysse and Depauw 2013: 431.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

P.Flor. I 71 was acquired in Cairo by G. Vitelli in 1904 (PSI online)

Accession number

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, P. Flor. I 71

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition

Sijpesteijn, Pieter J. and Worp, Klaas A. 1978. Zwei Landlisten aus dem Hermupolites (P.Giss. 117 und P.Flor. 71). (Stud.Amst. VII). Zutphen, no. 2.

Editio princeps

• Vitelli, Girolamo. 1906. Papiri greco-egizii, Papiri Fiorentini. I, Documenti pubblici e privati dell'età romana e bizantina. Milan, no.71.

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, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2022
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2022, "Artefact ID 1096", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1096