| Artefact ID | 1251 |
| TM ID | TM 21611 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 25 (Aḫmīm) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Dubl. 31: Contract Well preserved papyrus (except for upper margin) containing a lease of a linen-weaving workshop located in Panopolis, and more specifically in the "Fort (or Camp) of the Christians" (ἐν τῇ | Παρεμβολῇ τῶν Χρηστιανῶν, l. Χριστιανῶν): Aurelios Pasnos, son of Alopex, from Panopolis leases from Aurelios Palous linen-weaver from the same town a half part of a linen-weaving workshop, with two loom-frames (?) and their appliances, for how long as Palous is willing. The rent is both in money (200 silver talents) and in-kind (weaving of ten linen cloths). According to the ed., Parembole, is a common toponym in papyri both as an operational military camp, and as a district or place name. A Parembole at Panopolis appears in P.Panop. 8.5 (338 AD), where the editors take it as a military camp, but it seems improbable to the ed. that it is the same place as "the Parembole of the Christians". He suggests that the latter would rather refer to a clearly definable part of Panopolis, where there was a fort, no longer functioning as such, in which the Christians had tended to settle and form a sort of Christian quarter. Jean Gascou identified this place as the "monastery in Shmin called Parembole" mentioned in a memorandum of the patriarch Dioscoros, see Husson 1997: 383 (= BL XI 74). The handwriting is a cursive running along the fibres. The subscription of Palous (different hand) was written by Aur. Thedoros from Panopolis as Palous is said to be illiterate. Verso is blank. |
| Selection criteria | Mention of Christian individuals/communities |
| Date from | 355 |
| Date to | 355 |
| Dating criteria | Consular date formula (l. 21-22): consulship of Arbitio and Lollianos Thoth 5 = September 3, 355. |
| Absolute/relative date | Absolute date |
| Archaeological context | - |
| Accession number | Dublin, Chester Beatty Library I (no inv. number assigned to the document). |
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