| Artefact ID | 1367 |
| TM ID | TM 140153 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Archive/Dossier | Dossier |
| Description | P.Mich. ΧΧ 809: Declaration by a boatsman to deliver wheat to Alexandria with list. Aurelius Jakob son of Jason, from Panopolis, living in Babylon, boatman of an imperial ship from the flotilla stationed in Memphis acknowledges to the boule of Oxyrhynchos that he has received a cargo of 1,015 artabas of wheat in Oxyrhynchus for transport to the public granaries in Alexandria and gives a list of the people who have loaded into the ship from the harvest of the first new indiction. Among them Gerontios and Eulogios, presbyteroi ("village-elders" in ed. but see discussion by M. Choat in P.Gascou 26) delivered 264 art. for the village of Posompous. Written in cursive hand running along the fibres, two columns. Verso is blank. This document is a duplicate of P.Mich. ΧΧ 810 (TM 140154) but 809 contains the second column now lost in 810. |
| Selection criteria | Mention of Christian cult officials/institutions |
| Date from | 372 |
| Date to | 372 |
| Dating criteria | The declaration is dated November 6, 372 (consulate of Fl. Modestus and of Fl. Arintheus, Hathyr 10). |
| Absolute/relative date | Absolute date |
| Archaeological context | Purchased from Nahman in 1925 and came to Michigan University in October 1926 as a gift of Oscar Weber and Richard H. Webber (of Detroit) |
| Accession number | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 4024 A + P. 4027 A |
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