E02220: Greek report by the inhabitants of the village of Aphrodito (Upper Egypt), mentioning a presbyter and oikonomos of an institution dedicated to Apa *Herrmauos (S01188); dated before 10 November 547 AD.
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P.Cair.Masp. 3 67283
Report (didaskalia) addressed to the Empress Theodora by the inhabitants of Aphrodito, against the intrigues of the pagarch of Antaiopolis. The text seems to have been written by Dioscoros. The papyrus is made of three pages separated by ample margins
Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Aphrodito
Hermopolis
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ashmunein
Hermopolis
Cult activities - Places
Cult building - unspecified
Source
The papyrus document JE40455 belongs to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and has been dated on palaeographical grounds.
Discussion
The same saint in mentioned in E02219, E02221, and E02222.
Bibliography
Edition:
Maspero, J., Papyrus grecs d'époque byzantine, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire III (Cairo, 1916).
Mention:
Papaconstantinou, A., Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (Paris: CNRS, 2001), 81–82.