OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8 x 9.5 cm.

Lines:

13

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. Top margin 2 cm., otherwise torn on all sides

Content

Date:

131 (?) A.D.

Origin:

Memphis, Memphite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Sameros, son of Philakratos

Title / Type of text:

Registration of property

Content:

Declaration of property from Sameros to the custodians of property records of the Memphites

Subjects:

Registration Property Declaration

Named people:

Anoubion, bibliophylax enkteseon Chaeremon, bibliophylax enkteseon Sameros, son of Akratos, son of Akes Thamounis, mother of Sameros Thakoris, daughter of Akratos Flavius Titianus, prefect

Named places:

Memphite nome Memphis

English translation:

To Anoubion and Chaeremon, custodians of property records of the Memphites, from Sameros, son of Philakratos son of Akes, his mother being Thamounis, both of the city of Memphis. In accordance with the commands of Flavius Titianus, the most noble prefect, I declare as my holdings at the present date, the inheritance from my paternal grandmother Thakoris, daugther of Akratos following the provision of the will, made ... (date and place)

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1923 through British Museum, with M. Nahman as the dealer. Cf. the reports and the inventory list by H. I. Bell

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 24
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Schmidt KFW, Gött.Gel.Anz. 194 (1932) 281 (l.3)
  • P.Oslo III (1936) 275
  • Hagedorn D, Tyche 26 (2011) 296 (l.2)

Further Literature

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