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E02375: Greek antichretic loan, from Hermopolis (Middle Egypt), mentioning a canal named after *Kollouthos (physician and martyr of Antinoopolis, S00641); dated 9 January 582.

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posted on 2017-02-14, 00:00 authored by gschenke
BGU 19 2837

In this very fragmentary contract between vegetable sellers from Hermopolis, one of them receives a payment, before parameters of a loan and interest in kind to be provided are discussed. Something seems to either have been located near the canal or was intended to be transported on it.
Lines 9–10 read as follows:

τῆς διώρυκος τοῦ ἁγίου Κολλούθου ἐν πεδιάδι [κώμης -ca.?- ]  ̣

'[…] … of the canal of saint Kollouthos in the plain [of the village …]'


(Text and German trans.: H. Maehler, Engl. trans.: G. Schenke)

A complete record of the document with images and bibliography can be found at:

http://papyri.info/ddbdp/bgu;19;2837

History

Evidence ID

E02375

Saint Name

Kollouthos, physician and martyr from Antinoopolis (Middle Egypt), ob. early 4th cent. : S00641

Saint Name in Source

Κολλοῦθος

Type of Evidence

Documentary texts - Other private document Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet

Language

  • Greek

Evidence not before

582

Evidence not after

582

Activity not before

582

Activity not after

582

Place of Evidence - Region

Egypt and Cyrenaica

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Hermopolis

Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)

Hermopolis Hermopolis ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Ashmunein Hermopolis

Cult activities - Places Named after Saint

  • Other

Source

This very fragmentary papyrus document, P. 25014, is housed at the papyrus collection in Berlin.

Discussion

The canal mentioned is likely to be an irrigation canal, possibly located near or on a plain belonging to a church or monastery dedicated to Kollouthos.

Bibliography

Text and translation: Maehler, H., et al. Urkunden aus Hermupolis (Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen (later Staatlichen) Museen zu Berlin, Griechische Urkunden XIX; Munich, 2005), 169–172.

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