Greek account from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), listing among many expenses some paid to a martyr shrine (martyrion) of *Serenos/Sirenos (saint with martyr shrine at Oxyrhynchos, S00134); dated 557.
E02303
Documentary texts - List
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
P.Oxy. 16 1911
This very long document (belonging from the Apion Archive) lists the income and expenditure of large estates in wheat and money during the course of the year 557. Among the entries are many concerning expenses paid for churches and monasteries named after their founders (e.g. lines 70–76, 150, 147, 153–154), as well payments made to a martyr shrine of Saint Serenos, lines 92–95 (which happen to equal an entry in another annual account, P.Oxy. 55 3804, lines 164–167):
εἰς τὸ μαρτύριον τ̣[οῦ] ἁγί(ου) Σερήνου κατὰ δω[ρ]εὰν Ἀπολλῶ τοῦ υἱοῦ τ[οῦ] ἐπισκόπου
ἐν κτήμα(τι) Ταρουθίνου δικαίου τοῦ κτήμα(τος) Κοτυλεείου κατὰ τὸ ἔθος καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ε ἰνδ(ικτίονος)
σίτου κ(αγκέλλῳ) (ἀρτάβαι) γ̣ 𐅵 [ ̣] καὶ κατὰ δωρεὰν Φοιβάμμωνος υἱοῦ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου ἐκ Τοὲ δ(ιὰ)
Ἔρωτος καὶ Ἀμάτου καὶ τοῦ ἄ̣λ(λου) ἐργ(άτου) τῶν ἀμπέλ(ων) νο(μίσματα) β.
'To the martyrium of St Serenus according to a grant of Apollos son of the bishop in the holding of Taruthinu, in right of the holding of Cotyleeiu according to the custom, wheat by cancellus art. 26, sol. 1 1/2, and according to a grant of Phoebammon son of the bishop in the holding Cotyleeiu from the ground of Eros and Amatus and of the vinedressers sol. 2.'
Text: B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, and H. I. Bell
Translation: J. R. Rea, in P.Oxy. 55 3804
A complete record of the document with images and bibliography can be found at: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;16;1911
Martyr shrine (martyrion, bet sāhedwātā, etc.)
Non Liturgical ActivityBequests, donations, gifts and offerings
Source
This large but slightly fragmentary papyrus document, P.Cairo 10154, is housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.Discussion
This payment to the martyr shrine of Serenos seems to have been made annually, as the same entry occurs in a list of expenditures concerning a different year, P.Oxy. 55 3804, lines 164–167.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), 144–157.
G. Schenke
3/2/2017
ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00134 | Sirenos/Serenos, saint with martyr shrine at Oxyrhynchos | Σερῆνος | Uncertain |
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