Greek declaration, from Oxyrhynchos (Middle Egypt), concerning the theft of a silver plate, mentioning a church of *Thekla (probably the follower of Paul, S00092); datable to the 6th century.
E02350
Documentary texts - Other private document
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
P.Oxy. 24 2419
This fragmentary document is a declaration concerning the theft of a silver plate. The witness here seems to state that he accompanied someone, possibly the accused party, late in the day to the convent of Ama Juliana. After the accused was admitted, he took hold of a silver plate belonging to the convent, apparently with the help of one of the convent's inmates. The plate was broken up and taken to a silversmith who produced spoons from it.
Lines 2 and 3 read as follows:
καὶ Σερήνου τοῦ εὐλαβε̣σ̣τάτου πρεσβυτέρου τῆς ἁγίας Θέκλας …
[καὶ -ca.?- τοῦ εὐλα]βεστ(άτου) πρεσβυτέρου καὶ οἰκονόμου τῆς αὐτῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας
'… and Serenos the most pious presbyter of Saint Thekla . . . [… the] most pious presbyter and steward of the same holy church ...'
Summary and text: E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. G. Turner and J. W. B. Barns
Translation: G. Schenke
A complete record of the document with images and bibliography can be found at: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;24;2419
Cult building - independent (church)
Source
This fragmentary document was found at Oxyrhynchos. It is housed in the Sackler Library at Oxford and has been dated on palaeographical grounds.Bibliography
Edition:Lobel, E., Roberts, C.H., Turner, E.G., and Barns, J.W.B., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XXIV, published by the Egypt Exploration Society in Graeco-Roman Memoirs (London, 1957), 183–184.
Gesa Schenke
9/2/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00092 | Thekla, follower of the Apostle Paul | Θέκλα | Uncertain | S00777 | Thekla, martyr from Assiut | Θέκλα | Uncertain |
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