E00734: Greek list from Hipponon in the Herakleopolite nome (Middle Egypt), presenting items bequeathed, handed over, or promised to the shrine of an unnamed martyr, datable to the 5th c.

P.Baden IV 54=VBP IV 54, lines 1–12:

βρέουιον σκευῶν ἁγίου μαρτυρίου.
Αὐρ(ήλιος) Πτολεμαῖος ἀφῆκεν
οὕτως·
ποτήρια ἀργυρᾶ γ καὶ χρυσοῦ νο(μισματα) ϛ
5 λύχνοι ἀργυρ(οῖ) ϛ
ἐλαίου ῥαφανίνου σικελι(κὰ(?)) β (ἔνατον)
λαχανοσπέρμου (ἀρτάβαι) ζ 𐅵
ἐλαίου χρηστοῦ ξ(έσται) ξ
σίτου ἀρτάβ(αι) ἐν τῇ κώμῃ (ἀρτάβαι) κα 𐅵
10 κ[αὶ] ὁμοί(ως) ἐνταῦθα σίτο(υ) (ἀρτάβαι) ξ χρεωστῖ
[ -ca.?- ] (ἀρτάβαι) δ Παῦλος διάκων(ος)
[λαχανοσ]πέρμου (ἀρτάβαι) γ σίτ(ου) (ἀρτάβαι) ζ

The next five lines (lines 13–17 of the document) are very fragmentary. They offer two other male names most likely followed by the commodities they handed over.

“List (brevium) of items of the holy martyr (shrine),
Aurelios, son of Ptolemaios, left
as follows:
3 silver wine-cups and 6 gold coins,
6 silver lamps,
2 Sicilian measures of radish oil,
7 ½ artabas of vegetable seed,
60 sextarii of fine oil,
21 ½ artabas of wheat in the village,
and likewise there 60 artabas of wheat,
4 artabas of […] from Paul, deacon,
3 artabas of vegetable seed, 7 artabas of wheat.”

(Trans. G. Schenke)

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http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.bad;4;54/