OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9 x 11.5 cm.

Lines:

Verso - 11 + 1 line in the left margin;Recto - 1

Publication side:

Verso; Recto: address, the rest unpublished

Palaeographic description:

Written in a careful, upright, almost literary handwriting.

State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Tapais

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

The first half of a private letter from Tapais to her brother Sarapammon, requesting him to fetch back various items for her.

Subjects:

Letter Chests Bracelet

Named people:

Tapais Sarapammon Ammonilla Thermouthion, also referred to as Thermouthis Thermouthis, also referred to as Thermouthion

Named places:

–

English translation:

Tapais to her brother Sarapammon greeting. Please would you be so kind as to go with your sister to her daughter Ammonilla's house and ask for the two chests of mine which they have got, and receive from Thermouthion the bracelet which she got from me. For it is not Hero... who got it from me, but Thermouthis. See to it that ...Margin: But do send us something, whatever ... I pray for your health.Recto: To Sarapammon from Tapais.

Provenance:

Probably Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

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

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M H de Kat, SO 53, 1978, 104-105
  SB: XIV 12024

Further Literature

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