OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

12.9 x 7.6 cm.

Lines:

11

Publication side:

Verso, the recto is blank

Palaeographic description:

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State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

(Reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus) 266/5-261/0 B.C.

Origin:

Alabastron Polis, Kynopolites, Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

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Title / Type of text:

Declaration of surety

Content:

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Subjects:

Declaration Surety

Named people:

Ptolemaios son of Aratocleos

Named places:

Alabastron polis

English translation:

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Provenance:

Alabastron Polis, Kynopolites, Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

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Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 16, picture: P.Oslo II Plates (Plate I)

Further Literature

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