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Artefact ID1359
TM IDTM 15772
Findspot (DEChriM ID)28   (al-Bahnasā)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Oxy. XLVI 3311: Petition

Well preserved and virtually complete piece of papyrus containing a petition addressed by two sisters, Aur. Cyrilla and Aur. Martha, from Oxyrhynchos, to the curator civitatis, or logistes, of the same city concerning an inheritance involving a monk (apotaktikos).

The writing runs along the fibres – except for the first sheet that is the protokollon of the roll.

Verso is blank.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities
Date from373
Date to374
Dating criteria

No exact date survives but the curator is known which allows for a date c. 373/374.

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Oxy. 3311

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Rea, John Rowland. 1978. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XLVI. London, no. 3311.

Additional bibliography

• Bagnall Roger S. 2001. "Monks and Property: Rhetoric, Law, and Patronage in the Apophthegmata Patrum and the Papyri." GRBS 42, 7-24.

• Blumell, Lincoln H. and Thomas Wayment. 2015. Christian Oxyrynchus: Texts, Documents and Sources. Waco, Texas. Papyrus no. 120.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1359", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1359