E02313: Greek list of building stones, from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), concerning the building of the church of *Philoxenos (saint with cult at Oxyrhynchos, S00443), datable to the 6th/7th century.
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P.Oxy. 16 2041
List of the stones used in building the church of St. Philoxenos, and of some other details of work. The stones are commonly reckoned in series of fifties, which are afterwards added together.
Documentary texts - List
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Language
Greek
Evidence not before
500
Evidence not after
699
Activity not before
500
Activity not after
699
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 - independent (church)
Source
The document, P.Cairo 10122, from Oxyrhynchos, is housed in the Egyptian museum in Cairo. It is dated on palaeographical grounds.
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), 263–264.