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T.M. Hickey and Brendan J. Haug
2 tovoToo vtocpap.
A: "... indiction 1-... To Flavia Anastasia, the most glorious illoustria,
daughter of Menas, son of Eudaimon, of glorious memory, landholder here..."
B: "... From Aurelius loustos, son of Mousaios, his mother being Sophia,
originating from the epoikion Neophyton of the Oxyrhynchite nome, a possession of..."
1 -3X- is positioned where formula leads us to expect -pXiTctov (of
rcptPX Titov), but we cannot read epsilon after lambda.
4 (toi): the length of the lacuna seems insufficient for the expected article before'OvpvyXitov.
- Anastasia's epoikion Neophyton recurs in P.Bibl.Univ.Giss. 57. A homonymous settlement appears in POxy. 57.3914.6 (519), but this need not have
been associated with Anastasia's ancestors. Settlements named Neophyton
("new plantation") were common; see from Anastasia's own estate PSelect.
20.3 (ircotKiou Neopitou Bdvoo), as well as, e.g., POxy. 68.4702.7 (rotxiov
NeopnToo AvTt6Xov; 520). See further A. Benaissa, Rural Settlements of the
Oxyrhynchite Nome: A Papyrological Survey (K6ln and Leuven 2009) 175-177
(available from http://www.trismegistos.org/top.php).
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