Artefact ID | 991 |
TM ID | TM 15327 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
Text content | Documentary |
Language | Greek |
Description | P.Haun. III 67: order of payment to a bishop This sheet of papyrus preserves an order sent by Phileas instructing an unknown person (name in lacuna) to supply, for the holy martyria, to Apa T-- (or apa Pistos?) 8 artabas of grain and 2 of vegetable seeds. This Apa was presumably the bishop of Oxyrhynchos who would have then distributed their allowances to the holy martyria (plural) of Oxyrhynchos (see Van Minnen 2016). The text is written on a coarse papyrus, across the fibres, in an upright cursive hand. Verso: three lines of text with illegible letters and tachygraphic signs running across the fibres. |
Selection criteria | Mention of Christian cult officials/institutions |
Date from | 398 |
Date to | 398 |
Dating criteria | Document dated 14. Aug. 398. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | The date in line 4 is according to the era of Oxyrhynchus, which is therefore the provenance of the papyrus. |
Accession number | Copenhagen, Carlsberg Papyrus Collection P.Haun. inv. 63 |