OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

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Size:

24 x 12 cm.

Lines:

Verso - 19

Publication side:

Verso: Recto is published separately

Palaeographic description:

Written in a nice upright hand.

State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

IIIrd century A.D., after 214

Origin:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Aurelius Philantinous

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

Letter from Aurelius Philantinous to his father Aurelius Ploution, regarding some commercial or industrial enterprise, probably having some connection with the fabrication or sale of papyrus rolls

Subjects:

Papyrus Production: Business: Letter Family

Named people:

Aurelius Philantinous, son of Aurelius Ploution Aurelius Ploution Psenteus, son of Aurelius Philantinous Lytus

Named places:

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English translation:

Aurelius Philantinous to his father Aurelius Ploution very many greetings. Before all I pray for your health and I make supplication for you before the gods of this place.I told you before through my son Psenteus about your and Lytus' interests, but (I have heard?) nothing at all about your deliveries; if you really want (me?) to arrange matters for you, you must send the available (deposited) things. For I have made sixteen deliveries for each of you, that makes thirtytwo, the cost of which, at the rate of twelve drachmae, amounts to 384 drachmae. And the loan for the new rolls I have had entered in the books, about which we have got your affirmation. I write to you in order that, if you neglect it, I shall not be blameworthy in your eyes. I greet all of our family. I pray for your health.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

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Editions

• Eliassen M H de Kat, SO 44, 1969, 157-159
  SB: X 10725

Further Literature

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