E06452: Greek tax receipt from the Arsinoites (Fayum), mentioning a baker of an institution dedicated to *Kosmas and Damianos (brothers, physician martyrs of Syria, S00385); datable to the 8th century.

SB 18 13272

[† παρ(έσ)χ(εν)] Ἀπολλῶ σιλιγνιά(ριος) τῶ(ν) ἁγίων Κοσμᾶ
(καὶ) Δαμια̣[ν]ο̣ῦ̣
[ ca. 4]κ( )λ̣( ) τῶ(ν) ἁγίων ὑ(πὲρ) πρωσυνάξε(ως) ἡμέρα(ς) τῆ(ς)
ἁγία(ς) τ̣ε[οτ(ό)κ(ου)]
[σί(του) ἀρτ(άβης) τρίτον] δ̣ωδέκατον μό(νον). ἐγρά(φη) μ(ηνὶ)
Π(α)χ(ων) ̣ ἰνδ(ικτίωνος) ̣[
γί(νεται) σί(του) ἀρτ(άβης) γ´ ιβ ́.

'Apollo, the baker of saint Kosmas and Damianos ... the saints, has paid for the prosynaxis of the day of the holy God-bearer one third and one twelfth of an artaba of wheat only. It was written in the month Pachon, on the ... of the ... indiction.
Total 1/3 1/12 art. wheat.'


(Text and translation (adapted) after L. Berkes)

A complete record of the text can be found at:

http://www.papyri.info/ddbdp/sb;18;13272