E02305: Greek account from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), listing receipts from estates, mentioning a payment from a presbyter and oikonomos of *Apa Titos (possibly the disciple of Paul, S01204); dated to 616–617.
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posted on 2017-02-02, 00:00authored bygschenke
P.Oxy. 16 1917
This account (part of the Apion Archive) lists receipts from estates in wheat and money. One such payment, though not yet received, was due from a presbyter and oikonomos of an institution dedicated to Apa Titos, line 19:
Documentary texts - List
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Language
Greek
Evidence not before
616
Evidence not after
617
Activity not before
616
Activity not after
617
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 - unspecified
Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Ecclesiastics - lesser clergy
Source
The papyrus document, P.Cairo 10132, from Oxyrhynchos, is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Discussion
Some of the villages mentioned in this document are located in the Heracleopolite, to the north of Oxyrhynchos, including the one to which the institution (church, shrine, or monastery) of Apa Titos belonged.
Bibliography
Edition:
Grenfell, B.P., Hunt, A.S., and Bell, H.I., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVI, published by the Egypt Exploration Society in Graeco-Roman Memoirs (London, 1924), 182–188.