OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8 x 9 cm.

Lines:

10

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

Written in the large and upright cursive that is typical of the late third and early fourth century.

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Letter

Content:

Letter concerning sale of house property

Subjects:

Property sale Letter

Named people:

Theon Aurelius

Named places:

Oxyrhynchus

English translation:

I make it manifest to you (that I have sold) first the house with site to Aurelius from Oxyrhynchus ... on the twentieth of the month Payni, at the price of 1600 drachmas with ... Theon paid as an agreement (or: reconciliation) ... on the same twentieth or on a day ... Later (he paid ... ) ......... instead of 560 drachmas from me ...

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Acquired by Eitrem in Egypt, March 1936

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Forselv I L, SO 54, 1979, 125-127
  SB: XVI 12547
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Jördens A, SB 18 (1993) p. 483 (l. 7)Kruit N, BL 9 (1995) p. 286 (l. 7 ad Jördens)

Further Literature

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