OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

7.7 x 22.8 cm

Lines:

14

Publication side:

Recto (Verso: unpublished)

Palaeographic description:

Hand with strong influence of the 'Subatianus Acquila' chancery style. Big letters. Large and regular line spacing.

State of preservation:

Light brown papyrus strip, cut to size to receive a letter on the back. Straight left edge, broken and frayed right side. Upper margin: 1.8 cm; lower margin: 2.2 cm. Horizontal break in the middle and damage around the break. Line beginnings and ends are missing. A strip from the upper layer of the papyrus has been peeled off obliterating line 11. The writing goes with the fibres. Black ink.

Content

Date:

IIIrd century CE, last decades

Origin:

Unknown place, Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Unknown

Title / Type of text:

Document / Official document, uncertain type

Content:

Includes references to an advance loan, repair or restauration, equipment (perhaps ropes), sailors, and the public services.

Subjects:

Loan Repair Equipment Rope Sailors

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Cairo, Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased through the British Museum (box IV 41, see Bell’s report) from Maurice Nahman.

Acquisition year:

1923

Editions

• Eitrem, S and Amundsen, L., P.Oslo III, 1936, p. 267 (no. 185)

Further Literature

Catalogues

TM 31645

Discussions

• Cavallo, G. (2005). Il calamo e il papiro Pap.Flor. XXXVI, Firenze, p. 38 (paleography & date).
• BL XII, p. 133 (l. 9).