OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

10.3 x 7.4 cm.

Lines:

19

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Only the upper left part of the papyrus is preserved. The top margin is 1.5 cm.

Content

Date:

198/199 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Receipt for rent

Content:

Acknowledgement of payment of rent from Souchiaina.

Subjects:

Receipt Contract Rent Lease of land

Named people:

Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabus Adiabenicus Parthicus Augustus, emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, emperor Heraklous, mother of ... Souchiaina, alias Thaësis Aristarchus

Named places:

Arsinoite nome

English translation:

The seventh year of the Imperatores Caesares Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabus Adiabenicus Parthicus the greatest and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augusti, in the month ... in ... of the Arsinoite nome. ..., his mother being Heraclous ... registered in the quarter of M..., ... years old, acknowledges to Souchiaina alias Thaësis, daughter of ..., about twenty-one years old, acting with her guardian, her uncle ..., son of Gemeinos, about forty years old ..., that he has received from Souchiaina alias Thaësis, from hand to hand, ... silver drachmas, which are the rent of the ... which the uncle of Souchiaina alias Thaësis had rented ... from the acknowledging party (in accordance with?) the lease contract. Date. ... the allotment of the island of Aristarchus ... which lease ....

Provenance:

Unknown place, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 50, 1975, 77-81
  SB: XIV 11436

Further Literature

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