OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

10.2 x 7.4 cm [H x W]

Lines:

20

Publication side:

Recto (Verso: blank)

Palaeographic description:

Neat and practiced upright cursive hand of the Roman period, using black ink and a somewhat thick pen.

State of preservation:

A rectangular fragment of light brown papyrus preserving the upper left section of a document. A small rectangular section (ca. 2 x 0.5 cm [H x W]) is missing from the beginnings of lines 5-8, and a larger, also rectangular, section (ca. 3.5 x 1.5 cm [H x W]) is missing from the right part of the fragment, removing parts of lines 4-11. There are vertical fold lines at ca. 3, 5 & 6.5 cm from the left edge, dividing the fragment into 4 panels. The rightmost panel is only present in the top right corner. Only the top margin is preserved, measuring 1.5-2 cm. No apparent kollesis. There is an ink smudge on the back and tape strips attaching a loose fragment to the rest.

Content

Date:

198/199 CE

Origin:

Unknown place, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Receipt for rent / Receipt

Content:

Receipt for the payment of rent for an unknown amount and for an unknown lease object by Souchiaina alias Thaësis to an unknown lessor.

Subjects:

Receipt Contract Rent Lease

Named people:

Heraklous, mother of ... Souchiaina, alias Thaësis Aristarchos NN son of Gemeion

Named places:

Arsinoite nome Aristarchou Nesos

English translation:

The seventh year of the Impera[tores Caesares Lucius Septimius S]everus [P]ius P[ertinax Arabus Adiabenicus] Parthicus the greatest [and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Augusti, in the month [... in ...] of the Arsinoite nome. [NN], his mother being Heraclous [... registered] in the quarter of M[..., ... years old, acknowledges] to [So]uchiaina alias Thaë[sis, daughter of ...,] about twenty-one years old, [acting with her guardian, her uncle ...,] son of Gemeinos, about fo[rty] years old [...], that he has received [from Souchiaina] alias Thaësis, [daughter of NN,] from hand to hand, ... sil[ver drachmas, which are] the rent of the [...] which the uncle [of Souchiaina] alias Thaësis had rented [...] from the acknow[ledging party (in accordance with?) the] lease contract. [Date.] ... the all[otment] at Aristarchou Nesos [...] which lease [...]. (translation adapted from Martha Eliassen (1975)).

Provenance:

Possibly Tebtynis (mod. Umm el-Baragat), Egypt

Acquisition:

Leiv Amundsen bought the lot from Maurice Nahman in Cairo on February, 18, 1929.

Acquisition year:

1929

Editions

• Eliassen, M. H. de Kat, Symbolae Osloenses, 50, 1975, pp. 77-81
  SB: XIV 11436

Further Literature

Catalogues

TM 14448 / DDbDP / HGV / BL Online (BOEP 9.1 1030-1031)