OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.8 x 23.8 cm.

Lines:

12

Publication side:

Verso

Palaeographic description:

Written in a clear, careful, rather upright hand.

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus

Content

Date:

October 12, 34 A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Limnaios, son of Limnaios

Title / Type of text:

Contract (?)

Content:

Copy of a contract for a loan (?), or a writing exercise? Written on the back of a contract for a lease of land.

Subjects:

Contract Loan

Named people:

Limnaios, son of Limnaios:Gaius Petronius, stratiotes Tiberius Caesar Augustus, emperor

Named places:

Karanis

English translation:

(2nd hand): Year. In the twenty-first year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus on the fifteenth of the month Apelaion, which is the 15th of Phaophi, in Karanis in the district of Herakleides, Gaius Petronius, legionary soldier, lent ... Limnaios son of Limnaios to his dearest father, greetings. In the twenty-first year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus on the fifteenth of the month Apelaion.

Provenance:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1923 through British Museum, with M. Nahman as the dealer. Cf. the reports and the inventory list by H. I. Bell

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 33

Further Literature

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