E08415
Documentary texts - Charter or diploma
Documentary texts - List
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Tjäder P. 8 (excerpt)
[...] Item notitia, quod accepit s(upra)s(crip)tus Gratianus de domus, quae sunt intra ciuitate Ravenna, seu praedia rustica, quae sunt in diuersis territuriis: ex domo, quae est ad Sancta Agathae Rau(ennae) secudum / fidem documenti uncias duas; ex domo quae est post basilica Sancti Victoris Rav(ennae) secundum fidem donationis uncias quattuor [...]
'... Again, a notice: concerning what the aforesaid Gratianus receives from the houses which are within the city of Ravenna, and the rural estates, which are in various territories: from the house which is at Saint Agatha in Ravenna, two twelfths, as established by documentary proof; from the house which is behind the basilica of Saint Victor in Ravenna, four twelfths, as established by documentary proof...'
Text: Tjäder 1955-82: i. 235-46.
Translation: B. Savill
Cult building - independent (church)
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesOfficials
Source
Thirty-eight papyrus documents (plus a further four of less certain provenance) dating from the years 445 to c. 700 survive today from the archives of the church of Ravenna. Most were produced in the city, although some appear to have come to Ravenna via interested parties after originally being issued at other centres (e.g. Faenza, Syracuse, Nepi). An exceptionally rare witness to late antique documentary culture, the Ravenna papyri constitute the single largest corpus of Latin papyri documents still extant, although the collection is now dispersed between a number of libraries across Europe and North America. The standard modern edition is Tjäder 1955-82. We have included in our database the eight documents from this corpus which provide evidence for saints' cults before c. 700.This papyrus (285 x 1320 mm) is now Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 4568 A.
Discussion
This is one of several documents of its kind which have been transmitted with the Ravenna papyri, probably an official copy of an entry made into the gesta muncipalia (city archives) on behalf of an interested party.For much later evidence of the cults of Agatha and Victor in the city, see E05796 and E05773.
Bibliography
EditionDie nichtliterarischen lateinischen Papyri Italiens aus der Zeit 445-700, ed. J.-O. Tjäder, 2 vols (Lund and Stockholm, 1955-82).
Benjamin Savill
04/03/2023
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00312 | Victor 'Maurus'/the Moor, soldier and martyr of Milan | Victor | Uncertain | S00794 | Agatha, virgin and martyr of Catania | Agatha | Certain |
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