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Certificate of pagan sacrifice: June - July, AD 250

These certificates were issued to those who satisfied the pagan commissioners during the persecution of Christians under the emperor Decius. Forty-six such certificates have been published, all dating from this same year, four of them from Oxyrhynchus of which this is the most recent example to be published.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol.LVIII no.3929