OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8.3 x 7.5 cm.

Lines:

6

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. A small part of the top margin, which measures 1 1/2 cm., is preserved. At the lower part of the fragment, a bit of the left margin (1 1/2 cm.) is intact. The line endings and the bottom part of the document are missing.

Content

Date:

1st century A.D. (after A.D. 69?)

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Report of legal proceedings before the epistrategos.

Content:

Copy from the acts of the epistrategos of the Thebaid.

Subjects:

Acts Proceedings Justice Epistrategos

Named people:

Antonius Taurus, epistrategos Herm... Psen... Besas

Named places:

Thebais

English translation:

Copy of the memoranda of Antonius Taurus, epistrategos/procurator of the Thebais, in the case of Herm... pleading against Psen..., also called Besas. The epistrategos (said?): ""Having been condemned/judged guilty ...

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, 180

Further Literature

Kelly B, Petitions, litigation, and social control in Roman Egypt, Oxford 2011, p. 81 n. 17