OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

16.8 x 9.8 cm.

Lines:

6

Publication side:

Verso, the Recto is unpublished

Palaeographic description:

On the recto is a rather illegible fragment of a money-account. Some illegible traces at the bottom of the verso seem to belong to this account.

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

May 15, 180 - 189 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, probably Arsinoite nome, republic of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Notification of an auction

Content:

Information from one official to another concerning the result of an auction.

Subjects:

Auction Officials

Named people:

Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar Sarapion, son of Ammonius Ammonius, father of Sarapion

Named places:

–

English translation:

... the twenty ... year of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Pachon the twentieth, at the auction, since nobody gave more, I have passed to Sarapion, son of Ammonius, for 220 drachmas and the extra (additional) payments ....

Provenance:

Unknown place, probably Arsinoite nome, republic of Egypt

Acquisition:

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

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 52, 1977, 102-104
  SB: XIV 12019

Further Literature

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