OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8.8 x 12.5

Lines:

15

Publication side:

Recto (Verso: P.Oslo III 192)

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

December 2, 130 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Ammonios, son of Origenes, epiteretes

Title / Type of text:

Monthly report from an epiteretes to the nomarch

Content:

Monthly report to Demetrios, the nomarch, from Ammonios, the epiteretes of ownerless land.

Subjects:

Report Land ownership

Named people:

Ammonios, son of Diogenes, epiteretes Demetrios, nomarchos Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, emperor

Named places:

Naukratis

English translation:

No 197To Demetrios, the nomarch of Naukratis, from Ammonios son of Origenes, the epiteretes/overseer of fines due by those who have taken possession of ownerless land in the present 15th year of our Lord the emperor Hadrian. I report that from the 6th of the month Athyr to the 6th of the present month Choiach nothing has been paid in. The 15th year of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Choiach 6th. I, Ammoni[os ] have submitted..

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased April 5 1928 by Leiv Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Behnasa

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 92

Further Literature

Catalogues

TM 21535 / DDbDP / HGV / BL Online

Discussions

• Lewis, N. (1997). The compulsory public services of Roman Egypt [2nd ed.]. Edizioni Gonnelli. On the office of epitêrêtês; see p. 29.

Wilcken U, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 12 (1937) 227Reiter F, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites. 2004, 53-54Derda T, Arsinoites nomos. Warsaw 2006, 67, n. 17