OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

19.5 x 17.4 cm.

Lines:

6

Publication side:

Recto

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

The papyrus is mutilated on the right side. The missing part probably was bigger than the part preserved.

Content

Date:

388 (?) - 393 A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Aurelius Phoibammon

Title / Type of text:

Contract concerning wine

Content:

Aurelius Phoibammon acknowledges to have got the price he thinks fit for a superior class of wine.

Subjects:

Contract Receipt Wine Purchase

Named people:

Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Ammonios Theodosius, emperor

Named places:

Oxyrhynchos

English translation:

In the consulate of our Lord Theodosius the eternal [Augustus, the x (day) of (month) and ...]; Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Ammonios, from the splendid and [most splendid city of Oxyrhynchos] to NN, son of NN, landowner in the city of Oxyrhynchos, greetings. I ack[owledge to have got from you in its entirety the agreed and satisfactory to me price for wine .... of the noble class/sort. The contract is valid, written in a single copy, [and ... ] them/these/themselves (?) the cause/accusation having cowered ...

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M.Nahman, Cairo, Sept. 1934

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Traversa A, SO 37, 1961, 105-107
  SB: VIII 9825
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Daris S, Aeg.42 (1962) 319 (l. 6)Hickey TM, Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 33 (2008) p. 348-350 (date)

Further Literature

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