OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

12.5 x 8.4 cm.

Lines:

25: 13 (R); 12 (V)

Publication side:

Recto, Verso

Palaeographic description:

One hand. Same for recto and verso. Practiced cursive. Black ink. Medium pen.

State of preservation:

Light brown colour. Holes all around. Frayed but preserved upper margin at 3.2 cm. Torn on the lower and right edge, broken on the right along the kollesis. Kollesis (left under right) at 1.7 cm from the left edge. Break along this inner part of the kollesis too. Peeled off upper layer on the left lower hand side on the recto affecting the beginnings of ll. 7-9.

Content

Date:

After March 7, 161 CE

Origin:

Unknown place, Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Unknown

Title / Type of text:

Report of legal proceedings / Document

Content:

Extract from a report of legal proceedings on unknown topic, perhaps citizenship rights.

Subjects:

Court Process Advocate Epistrategos Citizenship rights Petition Census Lawyer

Named people:

Claudius Xenophon? Alexandros lawyer Neilos

Named places:

–

English translation:

(recto) " ... unchanged ... the epistrategus, vir egregius, Claudius ... acting affectionately ... Alexandros the advocate replied ... and wants our... (5) | he turned out to have put forward accusations ... the brother Neilos ... exchange of letters ... of free men with slaves ... (towards the?) manumission I will deposit ... (10) ... the children will be ... the wife to come together ... is written your ... (13) (verso) ... 8th year, Pharmouthi [x] and registered ... of Antoninus, and in the 14th year of god/the late [Aelius Antoninus] (15) ... [NN] the advocate stood up ... on the endorsement [which runs] as follows: [ x year?] ... Phamenoth 12. [Appeal] to the epistrategus, vir egregius ... in the 7th year of god/the late Aelius [Antoninus] ... [NN, ] the advocate said ... [Here is a copy?] of the memorandum ... (20) of the petition which they submitted ... [NN] said: «Also from the house-to-house registrations ... sons registered into ... (not?) having heeded and from the ... (25)"

Provenance:

Cairo or Fayûm, Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Samson Eitrem

Acquisition year:

1920

Editions

• Eitrem, S. and Amundsen, L., P.Oslo III, 1936, no. 80, pp. 64-65

Further Literature

Catalogues

TM 21529

Discussions

• Thompson, J. D. (1982). The Epistrategos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Part 2. The Roman Epistrategos (Pap.Colon. VI) (pp. 122 n. 69, 131 n. 118, 153, 158 n. 42 [cf. BL VIII, p. 228], 202). Opladen.