E01144
Documentary texts - Donation document
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
CPR 4 33
Only the end of the legal document survives, in which a woman named Theognosta from Hermopolis authorizes a notary to address the dikaion of an oratory (eukterion) with respect to a donation or possibly a more regular payment. Various witnesses sign the document at the end of which the type of gift is specified as the amount of 40 jugs of wine, measures of wheat, as well as a part of the year’s harvest.
CPR 4 33,lines 12–18:
[ -ca.?- ] ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲉ ⲡⲛⲟⲙⲓⲕⲟⲥ ϩⲙ ⲡⲟⲩⲱϣ ⲙⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲡⲣⲱ[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]ϣⲱⲡⲉ ϩⲓⲧⲟⲟⲧ ⲉⲣⲉ ⲕⲩⲣⲁ ⲑⲉⲟⲅⲛⲱⲥⲧⲁ ⲧϣⲉ ⲙⲡ ̣[ -ca.?- ]
ⲙ̣ⲙⲟⲥ ⲉⲡⲇⲓⲕⲁⲓⲟⲛ ⲛⲡⲉⲩⲕⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲁⲁⲃ ⲛ[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]ⲱ̣ⲁⲛⲛⲁ ⲉϩⲙⲉ ⲛⲕⲁⲇⲟⲩⲥ ⲛⲏⲣⲡ ⲧⲉⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲛⲟⲩ̣[ⲱⲧ? -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ] ⲡⲙⲁ ⲛⲁⲫⲟⲩ ϩⲛ ⲧⲕⲁⲗⲁϫⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲉⲩϣⲁⲛϣ[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]ⲥ̣ⲟⲩⲟ ⲛⲧⲕⲟⲩⲓ ⲛⲟⲓⲡⲉ ϩⲁⲣⲟⲟⲩ ⲕⲁⲧⲁ ⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲡ[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]ⲧⲉⲗⲏⲥ ϫⲓⲛⲉ ⲡⲕⲁⲣⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲉⲛⲛⲁⲧⲏⲥ ⲓⲛⲇ(ⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ) ⲁ[ -ca.?- ]
'Athanase, the notary, through the will of God, the inhabitant [of? …] took place through me, since lady Theognosta, the daughter of […] it for the dikaion of the holy oratory of [saint] John (or Ioanna?) concerning forty jugs (κάδος) of wine of [the same] year […] the place of Aphou at the corner (?). If they […] wheat of the small measure from them every year […] … starting with the harvest of the 9th indiction […]”
Translation: G. Schenke
A full record of the text is available at: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/cpr;4;33
Cult building - unspecified
Cult building - dependent (chapel, baptistery, etc.)
Non Liturgical ActivityBequests, donations, gifts and offerings
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesWomen
Other lay individuals/ people
Ecclesiastics - monks/nuns/hermits
Source
CPR 4 33 is a fragmentary papyrus belonging to the Papyrus Collection in Vienna, inv. K 3199. The handwriting of the document has been dated to the 8th century.Discussion
The items donated seem to be annual gifts to the oratory. Whether this is the same oratory of *John mentioned in E01145 or possibly one to a female saint Ioanna is unclear.Bibliography
Text:http://papyri.info/ddbdp/cpr;4;33
Till, W.C., Corpus Papyrorum Raineri IV (CPR IV): Die koptischen Rechtsurkunden der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Vienna, 1958), 37–38.
Gesa Schenke
22/2/2016
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00020 | John the Baptist | Uncertain | S00042 | John, the Apostle and Evangelist | Uncertain |
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