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Artefact ID	1687
TM ID	TM 32567
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	P. Wash. Univ. 1 20: Complaint from two brothers to a πολιτευόμενος This bottom left (15.3 x 17.5 cm) of this sheet has broken off. Brothers Aurelius Orsentius and Paraklios, sons of Pataurios, from the village Paneuei in the Oxyrhynchite nome, appeal to Flavius Macrobios, “senator of the Oxyrhynchite”  (Φλαουίῳ Μακροβίῳ πολιτευομένου Ὀξυρυγχίτου, line 1–2) for the return of their houses. Having previously fled (ἀπὸ φυγῆς, line 6) due to unclear circumstances, they have found τὸν πρεσβυτερος τῆς καθολικῆς [ἐκκλησίας τ]ῆς κώμης (line 7–8) not only in their houses but in possession of their land (τὸν τόπον, line 9). They lodge this complaint due to the presbyteros’ unwillingness to let them reclaim their property.
Selection criteria	Mention of Christian cult officials/institutions
Date from	360
Date to	380
Dating criteria	The ed.pr. compares the hand to BGU IV 1093 (04.04.265 CE) and P.Ryl. II 117 (21.05.269 CE), but dates it to the 4th c. Further, Flavius Macrobius is attested in P.Wash.Univ. II 83 (~360–380 CE), and is possibly the same as in P.Oxy. LXVI 4529 (22./23.06.376). A Macrobios also appears in P.Wash.Univ. 1 54 (4th/5th c.)
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	The papyrus collection at Washington University was sent there by William Matthew Flinders Petrie in the 1920s, in return for aiding his excavations at Oxyrhynchus.
Accession number	St Louis, Washington University 31

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Schuman, Verne Brinson. 1980. Washington Papyri I: Non-Literary Texts (Nos. 1-61). Chico, CA: Scholars Press. 34-35, No. 20.

Additional bibliography
• Bagnall, Roger S. 1993. Egypt in Late Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 224.
• Blumell, Lincoln H. and Thomas A. Wayment. 2015. Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents and Sources. Waco TX: Baylor University Press. 450-452, No. 126.
• Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Studia Antiqua Australiensia 1. Turnhout: Brepols. 67n276.
• Farnes, Alan Taylor. 2020. “Two Orders for Payment from Oxyrhynchus Mentioning a Leukadios.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP) 57. 327-339: 334.
• Maresch, Klaus and Zola M. Packman. 1990. “Additions and Corrections to P.Wash.Univ. I.” In Papyri from the Washington University Collection, St. Louis, Missouri. Part II (P. Wash. Univ. II). Papyrologica Coloniensia XVIII. Opladen: Springer. 239-246: 242.
• Pruneti, Paola. 1981. “Brevi note a P.Wash. Univ.” Aegyptus 61. 119-120: 119.
• Schwartz, Jacques. 1982. “Review of: Verne Brinson Schuman (Ed.). Washington University Papyri I: Non-literary Texts (Nos. 1–61),” Gnomon 54. 826-828: 827.
• Sheridan Moss, Jennifer. 2009. “Two Michigan Papyri.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP) 46. 37-57: 40n6.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1687", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1687

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