E02311: Greek order to a wine-merchant, from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), to deliver wine to the 'widows of *Kosmas and Damianos' (brothers, physicians martyrs of Syria, S00385); datable to the 6th century.
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posted on 2017-02-02, 00:00authored bygschenke
P.Oxy. 16 1955
An order addressed to a wine-merchant to deliver one double jar of wine to the 'widows of Kosmas and Damianos':
Documentary texts - Other private document
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Language
Greek
Evidence not before
500
Evidence not after
599
Activity not before
500
Activity not after
599
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 Named after Saint
Hospital and other charitable institutions
Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Bequests, donations, gifts and offerings
Source
The document was found at Oxyrhynchos and is now housed in the Sackler Library at Oxford. it has been dated on palaeographical grounds.
Discussion
Very similar documents are E02130, E02310 and E02312, written by the same scribe on the same day, and addressed to the same wine-merchant (and E02126, by the same scribe and to the same wine-merchant, but on a different day), all ordering wines for charitable distribution to the widows of individual churches.
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), 219.