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Artefact ID1127
TM IDTM 33456
Findspot (DEChriM ID)28   (al-Bahnasā)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Harr. I 94; P. Mich. XX App. B 3: 181-182 no. 3: Account of Freights.

A list of cargoes loaded on boats, with the names of the shipowners, and, except in the first case, of the skippers. Among the owners are a councillor, the secretary of a dux, a bishop's son, Apollonios, son of Dionysios, episkopos, and Ammôn, priest.

According to N. Gonis, Apollonius, son of bishop Dionysius is not known otherwise, but his father may be the bishop known from P.Oxy. XXII 2344, of the early 350s (cf. BL X 14), see Gonis 2003: 165 and Gonis 2006; and also P.Mich. XVIII 767.

Other bishops as shipowners in P.Oxy. XXXIV 2729, P.Col. VII 160 and 161.

First three lines written in a different ink, probably at an earlier time than the rest, but in the same hand.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Christian onomastics
Date from325
Date to375
Dating criteria

Dated in the late 4th c. in ed. pr. but prosopography led N. Gonis to consider a date in the middle of 4th c. See Gonis 2003: 164-165.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

About the provenance see Gonis 2018: 188 (non vidi).

Accession number

Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library P. Harris 201 b

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Powell, J. Enoch. 1936. The Rendel Harris Papyri of Woodbrooke College, Birmingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 79, No. 94.

• Sijpesteijn, Pieter J. and Worp, Klaas A. - 2011. Michigan Papyri XX. A Transportation Archive from Fourth-Century Oxyrhynchus. Durham, NC: 181-182 no. 3.

Additional bibliography

• Gonis, Nikolaos. 2003. "Ship-Owners and Skippers in Fourth-Century Oxyrhynchus." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 143, 163-165.

• Gonis, Nikolaos. 2006. "Dionysius, Bishop of Oxyrhynchos, and his Date", Journal of Juristic Papyrology 26, 63-65.

• Gonis, Nikolaos. 2018. "Notes on Miscallaneous Documents V". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 208: 188 no. 57.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1127", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1127
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