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Artefact ID1252
TM IDTM 15963
Findspot (DEChriM ID)28   (al-Bahnasā)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Oxy. XLIV 3203: Agreement between two nuns and a Jew.

Sheet of papyrus preserving most part of a lease. Two nuns (monachai apotaktikai), Aur. Theodora and Tauris, daughters of Silvanus, from Oxyrhynchos, lease part of a house (exedra and cellar) to Aurelius Jose son of Judas, Jew, from the same city. The property is located in Oxyrhynchos, in the Cavalry Camp quarter.

The text is written along the fibres by a professional scribe. There is a cross before the kuria clause (l. 24). The subscription of Aur. Jose was written by Aur. Elias, who states that Aur. Jose is illiterate.

Verso is blank.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from400
Date to400
Dating criteria

The contract is dated to year 76/45 (Oxyrhynchite era), in the 14th indiction (l. 10-12) = June/July 400.

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Oxy. 3203.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Haslam, Michael W. 1976. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XLIV, Nos. 3151—3208, ed. A.K. Bowman, M.W. Haslam, J.C. Shelton and J.D. Thomas. London, no. 3203.

Additional bibliography

Blumell, Lincoln and Wayment, Thomas. 2015. Christian Oxyrhynchus. Waco, Texas, no. 128.

Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Turnhout, 117.

• Emmett, A. 1982. « Female Ascetics in the Greek Papyri », Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinistik 32, 2, 507-515.

• Elm, Susanna. 1994. "Virgins of God". The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity. Oxford, 237-239.

Horsley, G.H.R. 1976. New documents illustrating early Christianity, 1. The Ancient History Documentary Research Centre Macquarie University, §82.

• Rowlandson, Jane. 1998. Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt. Cambridge, no. 61.

• Wipszycka, Ewa. 2009. Moines et communautés monastiques en Egypte. Varsaw. 312-314 and 610

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1252", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1252
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