Order for Payment
Order issued by a church for the payment of two jars of wine to a plasterer on the occasion of a feast. (Grenfell & Hunt)
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 37137
Church order to supply wine to a plasterer for a feast TM 37137Oxyrhynchoslate 5th CE
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A short payment order from the church at Oxyrhynchos instructing Anouthios, deacon and steward of the church of St Gabriel, to give a plasterer two double jars of wine for the feast in the month of Tybi. It dates to around the late 5th century AD.
In English machine translation
† The holy church to Anouthios, deacon and steward of the holy Gabriel.
Provide to the plasterer, for the feast of Tybi, 2nd indiction, 2 double jars of wine, two only.
The "double jar" (diplon) was a standard wine container of the period. The feast in Tybi is probably Epiphany.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Orders for payment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.6.993
† ἡ ἁγία ἐκκλησία Ἀνουθίῳ διακόνῳ οἰκονόμῳ τοῦ ἁγίου Γαβριήλ. παράσχου τῷ κονιάτῃ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἑορτῆς τοῦ Τῦβι β ἰνδικτίονος οἴνου διπλᾶ β δύο μόνα.