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Artefact ID	1611
TM ID	TM 16870
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	28 (al-Bahnasā)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	P.Oxy. XXXIV 2665, P.Oxy. 34 2665: Report of property registrars on Paul This document (19 x 26 cm) is quite damaged at the top left and at the bottom, the left and right margin are present. The contents concern an individual designated as «Paul from the Oxyrhynchite nome» (line 14), who has been condemned by Satrius Arrianus, governor of the Thebaid, and whose property the bibliophylakes in the Oxyrhynchite have now verified in the records. In this report to the city councillors, they conclude that he owns nothing. His peculiar naming without profession and only with location indicates Paul may have been a well-known person in the nome. Due to the dating and content of the report, he is presumed to have been a possible victim of Diocletian’s Great Persecution, seeing as line 11 mentions the registrars proceeding κατὰ θεῖον πρόσταγμα (according to a divine edict) of the Emperors. Procurator rei privatae Aurelius Athanasius is mentioned only here and in P.Oxy. XXX 2673.
Selection criteria	Christian onomastics
Date from	305
Date to	306
Dating criteria	Dated to the consulship of Constantius and Galerius (l. 1–2) and the …th year of Augusti Constantius and Galerius, and Caesars [Severus and] Maximinus (l. 24–26).
Absolute/relative date	Absolute date
Archaeological context	Found in al-Bahnasā (Oxyrhynchos) during the excavations of Bernard Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt between 1896 and 1907.
Accession number	Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Oxy. 2665

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Parsons, Peter, John R. Rea and Eric G. Turner. 1968. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part XXXIII (P. Oxy. XXXIII). Graeco-Roman Memoirs 48. London: Egypt Exploration Society. 89-91, No. 2665.

Additional bibliography
• Luijendijk, AnneMarie. 2008. Greetings in the Lord. Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: 210-215.
• Blumell, Lincoln H. and Thomas A. Wayment. 2015. Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents and Sources. Waco TX: Baylor University Press. 421-424, No. 115.
• –––. “I. Public Documents Dealing with Christians. D. Property Reports Under Diocletian and Galerius” Papyri from the Rise of Christianity in Egypt: Draft Conspectus. (PCE.I.D). Macquarie University. 2, No. 5a. [http://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/public/download/%3Fid%3D45105&usg=AOvVaw2xqK_R6N3vQdQpC4Mq_iMD]

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1611", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1611

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External links

TM 16870 DDbDP (PN) HGV Oxyrhynchus Papyri (University of Oxford – Online Resource)

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