Coptic agreement over land property, from Jeme (Upper Egypt), mentioning a topos of Apa *Patermoute (saint with cult at Jeme, S01222); dated 8 December 722.
E02445
Documentary texts - Sale document
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
P.KRU 10
In this document inhabitants from the castron Jeme, the children of a man named Psate, make an agreement with other inhabitants of the same town, the children of Germanos, over land property that the children of Psate had previously sold to Germanos, but later demanded back.
The property in question is described as being located east of the topos of saint Apa Patermoute in lines 11–13:
ⲁⲛⲧⲓ ⲡⲕⲁϩ ⲧⲏⲣϥ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲛⲏⲧⲛ ⲡⲁⲓ ⲉⲧⲙⲡⲉⲓⲉⲃⲧ ⲙⲡⲧⲟⲡ[ⲟⲥ ⲉⲧⲟ]ⲩⲁⲁⲃ ⲙⲡϩⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲡⲁⲧⲉⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲙⲡⲕⲁⲥⲧⲣⲟⲛ ⲛϫⲏⲙⲉ
'… we sold you the entire land property, this one which is in the East of the holy topos of saint Apa Patermoute in the castron Jeme.'
and again in line 37:
ⲡⲉⲓⲙⲛⲧ ⲡⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲁⲁⲃ ⲙⲡϩⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲡⲁⲧⲉⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ
'The west (boundary): the holy topos of saint Apa Patermoute.'
Text: W. E. Crum and G. Steindorff
German translation: W. C. Till
English translation: G. Schenke
Cult building - unspecified
Source
The papyrus document, P.Berol. inv. 3138, is housed at the papyrus collection in Berlin.Discussion
For the possible identity of this Patermouthios, see Papaconstantinou 2001.Bibliography
Edition and translation:Crum, W.E., and Steindorff, G., Koptische Rechtsurkunden des achten Jahrhunderts aus Djeme (Theben) (Leipzig, 1971), 35–39.
Till, W.C., Die Koptischen Rechtsurkunden aus Theben (Vienna, 1964), 102–104 (German translations).
Further reading:
Papaconstantinou, A., Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (Paris, 2001), 168–170.
Gesa Schenke
10/3/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S01222 | Patermouthios, saint with cult at Jeme (Upper Egypt) | ⲁⲡⲁ ⲡⲁⲧⲉⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ | Uncertain |
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