E02357: Greek antichretic loan, from Alexandria, mentioning a martyrion of *John the Baptist (S00020), dated to the year 499/500.

P.Oxy. 63 4395

This loan document involves Flavius Julianus who had previously borrowed a much larger sum of money from someone else, see E02356. He states his residency as near the martyr shrine of John the Baptist, lines 2–4:

Φλ(άουϊος) Ἰουλιανὸς λ[αμπρότατος τριβοῦνος υἱὸς τοῦ τῆς]
μακαρίας μνήμ̣[ης Εὐσεβίου οἰκῶν] π̣λησ̣ί̣ο̣ν̣ τ̣[οῦ μαρτυρίου]
τοῦ ἁγίου Βαπτιστοῦ [ἐν τ]ο̣ῖς ἰδίοις

'Flavius Julianus, vir clarissimus, tribune, son of Eusebius of blessed memory, resident near the martyrium of St John the Baptist on his own premises, …'


(Text and trans.: J. R. Rea)

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