OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

6.9 x 10.8 cm.

Lines:

17

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Dark brown papyrus. Lines missing at top and bottom. Line beginnings are missing. Cut on the right side..

Content

Date:

IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Antinoopolis, Antinoopolite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Theon

Title / Type of text:

Deed of emancipation

Content:

The document states that the slave owner Theon has manumitted some slaves.

Subjects:

Deed Manumission Emancipation Slaves

Named people:

Theon Dionysia, daughter of Didymos Didymos, father of Dionysia Sarapiakos SebastikosCornelius Nervianus Zeus

Named places:

Mousegeteios (a demotikon in Antinoopolis)

English translation:

Theon, about 5? years old, (and .... daughter?) of Dionysia, daughter of Didymos, (declare?) that (they) manumit under Zeus, under the sun, and upon earth the slaves that they own by inheritance, Sarapiakos, about 33 years old and (...). (They are from now on entitled to) go and settle wherever they want without being hindered or blamed. For those who manumit give their consent, and they are in agreement with those who are manumitted as to this deed of manumission, and they do not further any complaints now or in the future against those who get their manumission (...) ................ (x, son of ) Cornelius, Nervianus and .. (son of ....), Sebastios and (...) and (x from) Mousegeteios ...........(Too fragmentary to translate any further)

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Bought from natives of Behnasa, 28.3. 1928. Part of a joint purchase of Columbia, Michigan, Princeton and Oslo universities

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 129

Further Literature

Catalogues

TM 31637 / DDbDP / HGV

Discussions

• Rea, J. R. (Ed.). (1996). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Volume LXIII. Egypt Exploration Society. Suggests Μ]α̣ντινόην on l. 16, as the name Ἀντινόη is unattested in the papyri.
• Cuvigny, H. (2021). Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert (Vol. 2). New York University Press. Follows Rea 1996 in correcting l. 16 to Μ]α̣ντινόην.