E02306: Greek list of furniture from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), mentioning two gilded icons, one of *Kollouthos (physician and martyr of Antinoopolis, S00641), the other of *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033), located in the triclinium of a suburban villa, datable to the late 6th/early 7th century.

P.Oxy. 16 1925

A list of furnishings drawn up to be handed over to an official messenger (symmachos). The purpose of the list is not clear, but it provides information concerning the content of a suburban villa of the Apions (proastion, line 1: ἐν τῷ προαστίῳ) and its various rooms, which in the triclinium (line 4: ἐν τῷ τρικλίνῳ) had two gilded icons, one of Kollouthos, the other of Mary.

Lines 6–8 read as follows:

ἰκονίδια δύ[ο] μιαν μὲν ἐχους τὸν ἅγι(ον) Κόλλουθον
περικεχρυ̣[σω]μέ(νον) τῇ κεφαλ(ῇ), την δὲ ἀλλην ἐχους
τὴν θεοτόκ[ον π]ε[ρ]ικεχρυσομε ὅλην

'Two small icons, one depicting saint Kollouthos, gilded on the head, the other depicting the mother of God, gilded entirely.'

The verso providing the caption to the document reads:

† γνῶ(σις) τῶν σκευῶν τοῦ προαστίο[υ] ἔξω τῆς πύλ(ης) μη(νὸς) Θὼθ ιγ ἰνδ(ικτίονος) ιβ.

'List of the equipment of the proastion outside the city gate, 13th of the month Thoth, 14th indiciton.'


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

A complete record of the document with images and bibliography can be found at:

http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;16;1925