Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3035

XLII 3035) is a warrant for the arrest of a Christian, issued by the authorities of the Roman Empire.

The order was issued by the head of the Oxyrhynchus ruling council, to the police in a country village, to arrest a man described as a Christian (note χρισιανόν, the papyrus has the early spelling, χρησιανόν).

[1] The manuscript is dated precisely in its closing lines to the third year of the co-regency of Valerian and Gallienus his son, in the third day of the Egyptian month Phamenoth (known as Paremhat in the Coptic calendar).

The equivalent date in the Gregorian calendar is 28 February 256 AD.

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