Notes: [1] The papyrus was part of an archive created by the scribe Apion and his son Kronion at Tebtunis between 20 BC and 56 AD. One hundred ninety-two other known documents from this archive are in Michigan, Cairo, and Leipzig. [2] Rev. J. Balmer Showers, later Bishop Showers, taught Greek at Bonebrake Theological Seminary (later renamed United Theological Seminary) in Dayton, Ohio from 1912–1926. According to R. J. Schork, “The Singular Circumstance of an Errant Papyrus,” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics at Boston University 16.2 (Fall 2008): 35 and 39, Showers had donated to the Egypt Exploration Fund, which led to the Fund giving eight Oxyrhynchus papyri to the seminary. Showers supplemented the gift with this papyrus, which he had purchased privately. The United Methodist Archives and History Center (http://catalog.gcah.org/publicdata/gcah2443.htm) mentions that he had taken a trip to the “Far East” in 1922; this was likely when he visited Egypt and acquired the papyrus. Most of the Apion/Kronion archive from Tebtunis was purchased from antiquities dealers in Cairo between 1918 and 1926. (https://www.lib.umich.edu/files/collections/papyrus/exhibits/introduction/from_egypt_1.new.html)

Selected References

Jennifer Larson, “Draft of Release of Claims Involving Receipt of Dowry,” in Papyri of the Museum of the Bible, vol. 1, edited by Jeffrey Fish. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

R. J. Schork, “The Singular Circumstance of an Errant Papyrus,” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics at Boston University 16.2 (Fall 2008): 25–47.