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E02129: Greek list, most likely from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), presenting deacons and sub-deacons of churches and martyr shrines, including a martyrion of *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), datable to the 5th century.

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posted on 2016-12-15, 00:00 authored by gschenke
P.Amst. I 81

☧ μ(αρτύ)ρ(ιον) Παρὰ Ποταμόν
Ναραῦ διάκ(ονος)
Μαρτύρι(ος) ὑποδιάκ(ονος)
Ἰσαῖος ὑποδιάκ(ονος)
5
ἐκκλησία νο̣τ[ίνη]
Ἰωάννης διάκ(ονος)
Φοῖβ ὑποδιάκ(ονος)
Ἰωάννης ὑποδιάκ(ονος)

μ(αρτύ)ρ(ιον) τοῦ ἁγίου Στεφάνου
10
Παπνοῦθις διάκ(ονος)
Φοιβάμμων ὑ̣ποδιάκ(ονος)
Ἀβραὰμ ὑπ̣[ο]δ̣ιάκ(ονος)
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'Martyrion by the River:
Narau, deacon,
Martyrios, sub-deacon,
Isaios, sub-deacon.
5
Southern church:
John, deacon,
Phib, sub-deacon,
John, sub-deacon.

Martyrion of St Stephen:
10
Papnouthis, deacon,
Phoibammon, sub-deacon,
Abraham, sub-deacon.'


Text: R.P. Salomons, P.J. Sijpesteijn, and K.A. Worp. Translation: G. Schenke

For a full record of this document see:
http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.amst;1;81

History

Evidence ID

E02129

Saint Name

Stephen, the First Martyr : S00030

Saint Name in Source

Στέφανος

Type of Evidence

Documentary texts - List Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet

Language

  • Greek

Evidence not before

400

Evidence not after

499

Activity not before

400

Activity not after

499

Place of Evidence - Region

Egypt and Cyrenaica

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Oxyrhynchos

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

Oxyrhynchos Hermopolis ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Ashmunein Hermopolis

Cult activities - Places

Cult building - independent (church)

Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives

Ecclesiastics - lesser clergy

Source

The papyrus P. Sem. 162 belongs to the University Library in Amsterdam. The document is dated on palaeographical grounds.

Discussion

The mention of an institution for saint Stephen listed together with a church/martyrion 'By the River’ likewise occurs in E00741 which comes from Oxyrhynchos, so our document here very likely has the same provenance. For a Southern church, likewise at Oxyrhynchos, see E02124. The purpose of the list is not evident. Each of the three institutions mentioned, one church and two martyria, list their clerics: a deacon and two subdeacons each.

Bibliography

Edition: R. P. Salomons, P.J. Sijpesteijn, and K.A. Worp, Die Amsterdamer Papyri I (Stud. Amst. XIV; Zutphen 1980). Correction: Minnen, P. van, “The Earliest Account of a Martyrdom in Coptic,” Analecta Bollandiana 113 (1995), 19.

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