Greek list of building stones, from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), concerning the building of the church of *Philoxenos (saint with cult at Oxyrhynchos, S00443); datable to the 6th/7th century.
Evidence ID
E02313
Type of Evidence
Documentary texts - List
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
P.Oxy. 16 2041
List of the stones used in building the church of St. Philoxenos, and of some other details of work. The stones are commonly reckoned in series of fifties, which are afterwards added together.
Line 1 reads as follows:
† γνῶσις λίθ(ων) μετρηθ(έντων) ἐν τῇ οἰκοδ(ομῇ) τοῦ ἁγί(ου) Φιλοξένου δι(ὰ) Φιλέου λαοξόου Τῦβι ιδ ἰνδ(ικτίονος) ιγ, οὕτ(ως)·
'List of the stones measured in the building of St Philoxenos through Phileas, stone-cutter, Tybi 14, indiction 13, as follows.'
Summary and 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;2041
Cult Places
Cult building - independent (church)
Source
The document, P.Cairo 10122, from Oxyrhynchos, is housed in the Egyptian museum in Cairo. It is dated on palaeographical grounds.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), 263–264.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
8/2/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00443 | Philoxenos, saint with cult at Oxyrhynchos | Φιλοξένος | Certain |
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