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POxy 3929 (or P. Oxy. LVIII 3929) is one of four examples of '' libelli'' found at
P. Oxy. LVIII 3929
the
'P.Oxy. XLI 3929'
at ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project'', Oxford University.
POxy 3929 (or P. Oxy. LVIII 3929) is one of four examples of '' libelli'' found at Oxyrhynchus
Oxyrhynchus (; grc-gre, Ὀξύρρυγχος, Oxýrrhynchos, sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian ''Pr-Medjed''; cop, or , ''Pemdje''; ar, البهنسا, ''Al-Bahnasa'') is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo ...
in Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
.
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the
Egypt Exploration Society
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) is a British non-profit organization. The society was founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole in order to examine and excavate in the areas of Egypt and Sudan. The intent was to study and ana ...
).
"This document belongs to the category of certificates of sacrifice issued to those who satisfied the pagan commissioners during the Decian persecution
The Decian persecution of Christians occurred in 250 AD under the Roman Emperor Decius. He had issued an edict ordering everyone in the Empire to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods and the well-being of the emperor. The sacrifices had to ...
of Christians," according to ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri''. It was issued somewhere between 25 June and 24 July, in the year 250, according to the same source. The text must supply the month Epeiph of the Egyptian calendar
The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Eac ...
, but the day is either not supplied, indistinct, or lost.
Text
See also
*Lapsi (Christian)
In the early Christian Church, ''lapsi'' were apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by Roman authorities. The term refers to those who have lapsed or fallen away from their faith, only to return to it later.
Origins
The D ...
*Oxyrhynchus papyri
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (, mo ...
*Other libelli: POxy 658 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 658 (P. Oxy. 658 or P. Oxy. IV 658) is one of four examples of '' libelli'' found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The last lines of the manuscript declare the date — the first year of the emperor Decius, whose full name was Gaius Mess ...
, POxy 1464
POxy 1464 (or P. Oxy. XII 1464) is a document that was found at the city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. This document was given to a Roman citizen to certify performance of a pagan sacrifice, hence demonstrating loyalty to the authorities of the Roman E ...
, POxy 2990
POxy 2990 (or P. Oxy. XLI 2990) is one of four examples of '' libelli'' found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
Text
*Original lines are retained (and numbered).
*Text in racketsis reconstructed to fill a gap ( lacuna) in the papyrus.
*Text in (parenthes ...
* Warrant to arrest a Christian: POxy 3035
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3035 (or P. Oxy. XLII 3035) is a warrant for the arrest of a Christian, issued by the authorities of the Roman Empire. This is one of the earliest uses of the word ''Christian'' attested on papyrus.
The order was issued by th ...
References
External links
'P.Oxy. XLI 3929'
at ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project'', Oxford University.
POxy 3929
POxy 3929 (or P. Oxy. LVIII 3929) is one of four examples of '' libelli'' found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
*Image:''P. Oxy. LVIII 3929
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POxy 3929
POxy 3929 (or P. Oxy. LVIII 3929) is one of four examples of '' libelli'' found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
*Image:''P. Oxy. LVIII 3929
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