OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

1.9 x 3.7 cm.

Lines:

8

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

Rather uneven, semi-literary handwriting

State of preservation:

A tiny fragment of medium brown papyrus

Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Literary text?

Content:

Possibly literary text

Subjects:

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Derballah (Behnasa) at Beni Masas, Jan. 27, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 174

Further Literature

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