OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

11.6 x 5.8 cm.

Lines:

–

Publication side:

Verso, the Recto is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Dark brown papyrus. Top and left margin measure 1 cm, the papyrus is broken on the right side and at the bottom. The text is written across the fibres.

Content

Date:

IInd/IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Antiochos

Title / Type of text:

Order for machine-oil

Content:

An order for the delivery of machine-oil to be used in a factory producing grape-wine.

Subjects:

Oil Wine Grapes Order

Named people:

Antiochos Eudaimon Harpokration, phrontistes of Sento

Named places:

Sento

English translation:

Antiochos to his brother Eudaimon, greetings. Give to Harpokration, the procurator of Sento, one jar of machine oil to be used on the machine for pressing grapes, that is 1 jar of machine oil. 10th year, 18th of Mesore.

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Behnasa, April 5, 1928

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 145

Further Literature

Daris S, Aegyptus 37 (1957) p. 90