OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8.5 x 6.8 cm.

Lines:

14

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is unpublished

Palaeographic description:

Written in a small and dense cursive. There is an erasure in l. 8.

State of preservation:

Very fragmentary beginning of a document, broken off at both sides, and the bottom part is also broken.

Content

Date:

IInd/IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Phaophi

Title / Type of text:

Sale of a vineyard

Content:

Contract concerning the sale of a vineyard.

Subjects:

Contract Sale Vineyard Land ownership

Named people:

Phaophi Antonius, son of Asklepiades Seirion Ionados

Named places:

Oxyrhynchus

English translation:

Phaophi ... from the village of the Oxyrhynchite nome ... (X acknowledges that he has sold) to Antonius, Asklepiades' son, eight aruras or thereabouts from the share of the old vineyard ... and one arura of the barren ... (the whole of which is adjoined by) ... from the brick, and as much of ... Seirion and ... and ... acknowledging (that he has sold) one arura of the vineyard ... and for the share belonging to ... (he acknowledges that he has received) the price (mutually) agreed on: one talent and three thousand drachmae ... Ionados acknowledging, according to the share ... and according to the contract drawn up at the (record office) at the city of the Oxyrhynchi ...

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by S. Eitrem in Egypt, March 1936

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Forselv IL, SO 57, 1982, 127-130
  SB: XVI 12553

Further Literature

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