OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8.8 x 8.6 cm.

Lines:

9

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

The papyrus is complete. Regularly torn at top and the right side, left side margin 1 1/2 cm, bottom margin 3.5 cm.

Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Didyme, daughter of Heron

Title / Type of text:

Declaration of having requested for parathesis

Content:

Declaration that Didyme has requested a mortgage on her house as security for a money deposit.

Subjects:

Money deposit Mortgage House property Security Loan Illiteracy

Named people:

Didyme, daughter of Heron Didymos, husband and guardian of Didyme Heron, son of Didyme and Didymos

Named places:

Tebtynis

English translation:

Didyme daughter of Heron acting with my husband Didymus as guardian. I have presented (to the bibliophylaces) a notification of mortgage of one fourth of the house in Tebtynis as security for the deposit of the 240 drachmas as aforesaid. I, Heron their son, wrote for them as they are illiterate.

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Schreiner JH, SO 44, 1969, 146-148
  SB: X 10722

Further Literature

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