4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1626
TM ID	TM 16533
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	28 (al-Bahnasā)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	P.Oxy. XLI 2969, P.Oxy. 41 2969: Agreement for the caretaking of a persea tree This papyrus is the top left corner (11 x 11 cm + 4.5 x 6 cm) of an agreement between residents Timotheos (a bronze-worker), Euporion (a linen dealer) and Morus (an ἀναγνωστος, a reader or Christian lector) to care for a recently-planted persea tree near their houses. The addressee is Dioskorides, λογιστής of the Oxyrhynchite nome. The verso is blank. P.Oxy. 41 2993 is presumably a copy of this contract. This agreement also shows similarities to P.Oxy. 36 2767, an oath concerning care for trees.
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian onomastics
Date from	323
Date to	323
Dating criteria	The first line declares the year to be the “Consulship of the consuls to be designated for the third time”, see P.Oxy. 36 2767.
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. 2969

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