An inventory of furnishings and fittings found at a suburban estate outside the gate of Oxyrhynchus and handed over to Onnophrios, a symmachos (messenger or guard). It lists items in the dining room, including icons of Saint Kollouthos and the Virgin, and bronze fittings such as lion-head spouts and statuettes in the bath and cisterns. It dates to the 7th century AD.
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† List of various furnishings found in the suburban estate and handed over to Onnophrios, symmachos, in the month of Thoth 13, indiction 12, as follows:
In the dining room: 1 large couch,
lower part of a shield (?) with the boss (?), 1,
two small icons, one showing Saint Kollouthos gilded on the head, the other showing the Mother of God gilded all over,
couch having a cushion (?), without cushion, 1,
leaves of the great door, 8,
likewise small […] 11,
lattice screens […] of wood, 3,
leaf […] of sycamore wood, 1,
another leaf of sycamore wood, of the great workman (?), 1,
couch […] of the general, 1,
lattice screens […] of the bath, 2,
capitals […] large and small, various, 29,
bases (?) […] large and small, various, 29,
small columns […] of sycamore wood, 12,
small columns […] of sycamore wood, 2,
small columns […] of sycamore wood, 2,
capitals […] of marble, 19,
bases (?) […] of sycamore wood, 18,
pieces […] 2.
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And inside the bath: lion-head spouts, 7,
with their taps, likewise various, 7,
bronze rings with their lion-head spouts, 3.
And in the northern cistern: lion-head spout, 1,
bronze canopy (?), 1.
And in the southern cistern: lion-head spout, 1,
above the lion-head spout a small statue, 1,
likewise on the left a canopy (?), 1.
And in the great cistern: small statues, 4,
bronze canopies (?) likewise, 6,
taps of the pipes, 24,
lion-head spout likewise, 1.
And in the latrines: tap or dolphin-spout, 1,
upright-plaque cross above the door of the bath, gilded, 1,
small delicate columns, 13,
likewise delicate bases (?), 27,
wooden ladder of the suburban hippodrome, 1,
low seat (?) of sycamore wood, 1.
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† List of the furnishings of the suburban estate outside the gate, month of Thoth 14, indiction 12.
A symmachos was a low-ranking estate messenger or guard in Byzantine Egypt. Several terms (bomosphor-, chamopatyr, kiborion) are obscure and their translations are tentative.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Effects). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.