Artefact ID | 289 |
TM ID | TM 32643 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 25 (Aḫmīm) | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
Text content | Documentary |
Language | Greek |
Description | SB XXIV 16000; SB VIII 9902; P.Berl.Bork.: Topographical survey of real estate. Roll register listing over 23 columns all private and public buildings in a city (probably Panopolis) with the names of owners and tenants, and their occupation. Among them, six deacons (with pagan names) and 8 people with names suggestive of Christianity (Theodoros, Theophilos, Theognostos, Theoteknos, Theodora, Senpenouthes, Maria, etc.) out of 350 landholders. Contains one of the earliest mentions of a Christian church (l. 103: οἰκία ἤτοι ἐκκλισίας (l. ἐκκλησίας), with P.Oxy. I 43 verso (295-305?, Oxyrhynchos). Recto: cursive handwriting, written along the fibres. Verso: blank. |
Selection criteria | Mention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Christian onomastics |
Date from | 298 |
Date to | 325 |
Dating criteria | Palaeographically dated to c. 250 in ed. pr. but date revised in Thomas 1970: 177-181 with arguments based on terminology, prosopography and institutions mentioned in the document. His conclusions indicate a data after 298, perhaps in the earlier years of 4th c. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | - |
Accession number | Geneva, Bibliothèque P. Gr. 108 (fr. 1-20) + Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 16365 |