Text details:

Unique identifier: DC-4596

Class of material: Papyrological evidence

Mode of transmission: Papyrus

Text function: Legal

Text type: Contract

Subject / description: Purchase involving the bishopric of Arsinoites

Object: Papyrus roll/sheet

Text language: Greek

Associated People:

• The church of Eirene alias Eulogia of the martyrs of Arsinoe Receiver
• Helladios Receiver
• Ioannes Receiver
• Aurelios Ioannes Receiver
• Apphous Sender
• Aurelius Ioannes, son of Paulus Scribe
• N.N. Notary

Formula details:

Normalised version: p.c. Basilisci II et Armati

Abridged version: <p.?>c. D.N. Fll. Basilisci II et Armati v.c.

Original version: ☧ ὑπατίᾳ̣ τοῦ δεσπό̣τ̣ο̣υ̣ ἡμῶν Φλλ(αουίων) Βασειλίσκου τὸ β καὶ Ἀρμάτου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Μεχεὶρ γ ιε ἰνδικ(τίωνος) ἐν Ἀρσ̣ε̣ι̣ν(οιτῶν πόλει)

Formula language: Greek

Errors and aberrations: Conflicting dating + Misspell. name + right

Date details:

Possible dating: 476 or 477

Dating assigned: 477

Year (m.l.d. e.app.): No data

Day: 28

Month: i

Indiction: 15 (wrong?)

Other supporting dating elements: place

Accuracy: 2-year span

Location details:

Longitude: 30.835830

Latitude: 29.320880

Place name: Arsinoe (Medinet el-Fayum)

Region: Aegyptus

Macro-Region: East

External References:

Images:

• Koeln University

Database Entries:

• Trismegistos
• DDbDP
• HGV