E02231: Greek order for payment of wine, from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), mentioning a door keeper to an institution dedicated to *John (presumably either the Apostle and Evangelist, S00042, or the Baptist, S00020), dated to the year 503.

P.Oxy. 1 141 (= SPP 8 1155)

Order from John, a comes, to his servant Phoibammon to make wine payments to various individuals, among whom is a doorkeeper of a church or monastery dedicated to John.

Lines 3–4 read as follows:

τῷ θυρουρ(ῷ) τοῦ ἁγίου
Ἰωάννου διὰ Φῖβ συμμάχ(ου) δι(πλοῦν) α,

'For the doorkeeper of saint John, through Phib, the symmachos, one double jar (of wine).'


(Text: B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt, trans.: G. Schenke)

A complete record of the text, with images, can be found at:

http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;1;141