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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Greek document concerning tax payments in grain, of unknown Egyptian provenance, mentioning an institution dedicated to *Menas (soldier and martyr of Abu Mena, S00073); datable to the 8th century.

Evidence ID

E02228

Type of Evidence

Documentary texts - Fiscal document

Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet

CPR 22 15

The documents refers to taxes on land payable in grain.
Line 2 reads:

[ -ca.?- ]  ̣ο̣  ̣ τοῦ ἁγί(ου) Μην(ᾶ)

'[…] … of saint Menas …'


Text and Italian translation: F. Morelli
English translation: G. Schenke

A complete record of the text, with images, can be found at: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/cpr;22;15

Cult Places

Cult building - unspecified

Source

The papyrus document P.Vindob. G 39754 is housed at the papyrus collection in Vienna and has been dated on palaeographical grounds.


Discussion

The taxes may be due on a church or even a monastery of Menas, though the fragmentary nature of the document does not permit any certain conclusions.


Bibliography

Edition:
Morelli, F., Documenti greci per la fiscalità e la amministrazione dell'Egitto arabo, Corpus Papyrorum Raineri vol. XXII, Griechische Texte XV (Vienna, 2001), 76–79.


Record Created By

Gesa Schenke

Date of Entry

16/1/2017

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00073Menas, soldier and martyr buried at Abu MenaΜηνᾶςCertain


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