Greek account from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), listing receipts from estates, mentioning a payment from a presbyter and oikonomos of *Apa Titos (possibly the disciple of Paul, S01204); dated to 616/617.
Evidence ID
E02305
Type of Evidence
Documentary texts - List
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
P.Oxy. 16 1917
This account (part of the Apion Archive) lists receipts from estates in wheat and money. One such payment, though not yet received, was due from a presbyter and oikonomos of an institution dedicated to Apa Titos, line 19:
Παμοῦν πρεσβ(ύτερος) καὶ οἰκονόμος τοῦ ἁγίου ἄπα Τίττου σίτ(ου) (ἀρτάβαι) κδ
'Pamoun, the presbyter and oikonomos of saint Apa Titos: 24 artabas of wheat.'
Text: B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, and H. I. Bell
Translation: G. Schenke
A complete record of the document with images and bibliography can be found at: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;16;1917
Cult Places
Cult building - unspecified
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - lesser clergy
Source
The papyrus document, P.Cairo 10132, from Oxyrhynchos, is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.Discussion
Some of the villages mentioned in this document are located in the Heracleopolite, to the north of Oxyrhynchos, including the one to which the institution (church, shrine, or monastery) of Apa Titos belonged.The identity of this Titos is not certain - he may have been the disciple of Paul, though this Titos was not a figure who attracted widespread cult.
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), 182–188.
Further reading:
Papaconstantinou, A., Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (Paris: CNRS, 2001), 198.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
3/2/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S01204 | Titus, disciple of Paul | Τίττος | Uncertain |
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