OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

22 x 9.5 cm.

Lines:

20

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

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State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

100 A.D.

Origin:

Psenarpsenesis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Sokmenis

Title / Type of text:

Complaint

Content:

Complaint and petition to the strategos Claudius Areius from Sokmenos, concerning a theft from his olive yard.

Subjects:

Complaint Petition Theft Agriculture

Named people:

Sokmenis, son of Mou... Claudius Areius, strategos Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus, emperor

Named places:

Psenarpsenesis Heracleidou meris

English translation:

To Claudius Areius, strategus of the division of Herakleides in the Arsinoite nome, from Sokmenis, son of Mou..., of the village of Psenarpsenesis. On the night before the eighth of the current month ... was thievishly stolen from me, from the olive yard belonging to me in the neighbourhood of Psenarpsenesis, two artabai of (gathered?) olives, and ... of beams of olive wood ... and ... other ... whatever ... (Therefore I request) that there be made an inquiry into the matter, in order that the culprit may get the appropriate punishment. Signature. The third year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus ... Note of the strategus (?).

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

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Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 53, 1978, 97-99
  SB: XIV 12022

Further Literature

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