E05701
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Documentary texts - Other private document
O.CrumST 46
In this document, two brothers from city Hermonthis acknowledge that they have received their payment for the woodwork they had carried out on their city’s shrine dedicated to the Forty Martyrs and saint Theophilos. The list of diverse payment consists of two gold coins as well as various measures of wine, corn and meat.
The beginning of the document, lines 1–4 read as follows:
+ ⲁⲛⲟⲛ ⲥⲁⲁⲕ ⲁⲧⲣⲏⲧⲟⲥ ⲡⲣ[ⲙⲣⲙⲟⲛⲧ ⲙⲛ ⲇ]ⲓ̣ⲟⲥ ⲙⲛ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲃⲓⲕⲧⲱⲣ ⲛⲥⲛⲏⲩ ⲛⲛⲉⲩⲉⲣⲏⲩ ⲛϣⲏⲣⲉ ⲛⲁⲡⲁ [. . . . . . . ⲛⲣⲙⲣⲙ]ⲟⲛⲧ ⲉⲩⲥϩⲁ
ⲛⲡⲑⲉⲟⲫⲓⲗⲉⲥⲧⲁⲧⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲥⲁⲁⲕⲓⲟⲩ [ⲡⲟⲓⲕⲟⲛⲟⲙⲟ]ⲥ̣ ⲙⲡⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲁⲁⲃ ⲙⲡⲉϩⲙⲉ ⲙ[ⲙⲁⲣ]ⲧⲩⲣⲟⲥ ⲙⲛ ⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ
ⲑⲉⲟⲫ[ⲓⲗⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲉⲓⲡⲟⲗⲓ]ⲥ ⲛⲟⲩⲱⲧ ⲣⲙⲟⲛⲧ ⲣⲁϣⲉ ·
‘We, Isaak (son of) Hatre, the [inhabitant of Hermonthis, as well as Dios?] and Apa Biktor, brothers with one another, the sons of Apa [personal name, inhabitants of Hermonthis], are writing to the most God loving Apa Ioannes, son of Isaak, [the steward (oikonomos)?] at the holy place of the Forty Martyrs and of saint Theophilos [in the] same [city] Hermonthis, rejoice!’
(Text: W. E. Crum; trans.: G. Schenke)
Cult building - independent (church)
Places Named after SaintChurch
Source
The papyrus document R 93 is kept at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.Bibliography
Text:Crum, W.E., Short Texts from Coptic Ostraca and Papyri (Oxford, 1921), 16.
German Translation:
Till, W.C., Die Koptischen Rechtsurkunden aus Theben (Vienna, 1964), 219–220.
Gesa Schenke
18/6/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00103 | Forty Martyrs of Sebaste | ⲉϩⲙⲉ ⲙ[ⲙⲁⲣ]ⲧⲩⲣⲟⲥ | Uncertain | S00236 | Theophilos, Decian martyr of Egypt | ⲑⲉⲟⲫ[ⲓⲗⲟⲥ | Uncertain |
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