OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

11.1 x 4.9 cm.

Lines:

9

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Just the lower part of the document is preserved, and both sides of the fragment are torn off.

Content

Date:

August 31, 97 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Petosiris

Title / Type of text:

Complaint

Content:

Complaint with petition from Petosiris to a strategos, concerning a theft.

Subjects:

Complaint Petition Theft

Named people:

Petosiris Nerva Caesar Augustus, emperor

Named places:

–

English translation:

... must be kept in bed ... they carried off all (we?) had in my house, which I will disclose at the specified time. Wherefore I request you that they be brought before you for fitting punishment. Farewell. Petosiris, aged about 43 years, without distinguishing marks. The second year of Imperator Nerva Caesar Augustus, Sebastos 3.

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, 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 56, 1981, 99-101
  SB: XVI 12548

Further Literature

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