OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

6.2 x 6.4 cm.

Lines:

14

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The document is written in rather neat looking third-century hand-writing, with somewhat sloping letters, related to P.Ryl.114 2nd hand (A.D. 280).

State of preservation:

The top of the document is lost, but the contract seems to be written in the usual cheirographon form, so that we may suppose that the names and description of the vendors were mentioned in the first lines. The latter part of the document is also lacking

Content

Date:

After 270/271 A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Sale of a calf

Content:

The text describes the sale of a calf, and mentions the price obtained

Subjects:

Sale Calves Cattle Payment

Named people:

Dionysius Horus, son of Poron Poron, father of Horus

Named places:

Oxyrhynchus

English translation:

... of Dionysius, to Horus, son of Poron, of the illustrious and most illustrious city of Oxyrhynchos. We have sold to you a nearly full-grown, blood-coloured calf, at a price, of the same calf, of one talent and three thousand drachmae of Imperial silver coinage, (which) we have received here from the same Horus from hand to hand in full ...

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Acquired by Eitrem, through Maurice Nahman, in Egypt March 1936

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M. De Kat, SO 69, 1973, 50-52
  SB: XIV 11432
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Hagedorn D, ZPE 12 (1973) p. 280 (date)

Further Literature

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