E01913: Greek order of payment, from Arsinoe (Fayum), concerning grain mentioning a church of *Kollouthos (physician and martyr of Antinoopolis, S00641), datable to the 7th/8th century.

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posted on 2016-10-11, 00:00 authored by gschenke

BGU 2 688 (SPP 8 1140), line 2: τῆ(ς) ἁγί(ας) ἐκκλησί(ας) τ(ο)ῦ ἁγί(ου) Κολλούθου '… of the holy church of saint Kollouthos' For a full record of the document see: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/stud.pal;8;1140

History

Evidence ID

E01913

Saint Name

Kollouthos, physician from Antinoopolis (Middle Egypt), ob. early 4th cent. : S00641 Kollouthos, martyr at Alexandria : S00988

Saint Name in Source

Κολλοῦθος

Related Saint Records

Type of Evidence

Documentary texts - Other private document

Language

Greek

Evidence not before

600

Evidence not after

799

Activity not before

600

Activity not after

799

Place of Evidence - Region

Egypt and Cyrenaica

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Arsinoites (Fayum)

Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)

Arsinoites (Fayum) Hermopolis ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Ashmunein Hermopolis

Cult activities - Places

Cult building - independent (church)

Source

Parchment document from Arsinoe housed at the papyrus collection in Berlin. The document is dated on palaeographical grounds.

Bibliography

Text: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/stud.pal;8;1140 Further reading: Papaconstantinou, A., Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (Paris: CNRS, 2001), 420.