OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

7 x 11.5 cm.

Lines:

16

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Light brown papyrus. The top margin is 1 1/2 cm, the left one 1 cm. The right part is missing, breaks off at bottom.

Content

Date:

IInd/IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Apollonios, son of Apollonios, hiereus

Title / Type of text:

Receipt from a phrontistes.

Content:

Apollonios acknowledges to have received payment for having acted as bailiff for Faustina.

Subjects:

Priest Profession Payment Receipt

Named people:

Apollonios, son of Apollonios, hiereus Faustina, daughter of Faustus Faustus, former kosmetes Zeus, god Hera, goddess Artagatis, god Kore, goddess Dionysos, god Nike, goddess

Named places:

Oxyrhynchos

English translation:

Apollonios son of Apollonios ....and priest of Zeus, Hera, Artagatis, Kore, Dionysos and [the other deities residing with them in the temple], and celebrant of the imperial busts [and of Victory], to Faustina daughter of Faustus, former kosmetes in the city of Oxyrhynchos, greetings. I acknowledge [to have received from you] in their entirety the payments/wages [due to me] for the time that I have acted as bailiff for you up to this present day. This receipt from me, [Apollonios] son of Apollonios, is legally valid, wherever it is presented as evidence and [for anyone who presents (it) as evidence]. The fifth year of (Emperor's name, month, day).

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from prof. Carl Schmidt, Berlin. Sept.12./Oct.26, 1933

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 94

Further Literature

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