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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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Greek agreement from Arsinoiton Polis (Fayum), concerning a loan, mentioning a storehouse of *Sergios (presumably the soldier and martyr, S00023); dated 20 December 602.

Evidence ID

E06115

Type of Evidence

Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet

Documentary texts - Other private document

P.Grenf. 2 88

In this fragmentary acknowledgement a man named Aurelios Ioannes, son of Paulos, from the village of Philoxenos in Arsinoe, writes to Ioannes the keeper of a storehouse dedicated to saint Sergios, concerning a loan.

Line 11–12 of the document read as follows:

ἀποθήκης ἁγίου Σεργίου

'… of the storehouse of saint Sergios'


(Text: B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt; trans.: G. Schenke)

Full record available under:

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.grenf;2;88

Places Named after Saint

Other

Source

The papyrus document Pap 726 is kept at the British Library in London.


Bibliography

Text and translation:
Grenfell, B.P. and Hunt, A.S., New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (P.Grenf. 2) (Oxford, 1897)


Record Created By

Gesa Schenke

Date of Entry

16/8/2018

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00023Sergios, soldier and martyr of RusafaΣέργιοςUncertain


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