OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

P.Oslo III 100, 102, 103, 104

Size:

3.8 x 8.9 cm.

Lines:

11

Publication side:

Recto (Verso: blank)

Palaeographic description:

The connected items are all written in different hands.

State of preservation:

A medium brown papyrus, broken on both sides and at the bottom. What is left of the top margin measures 2 1/2 cm.

Content

Date:

163/64 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Tiberius Claudius Zoilus

Title / Type of text:

Return of unwatered land

Content:

Report concerning unflooded land.

Subjects:

Irrigation Report

Named people:

Tiberius Claudius Zoilus Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus, emperors

Named places:

–

English translation:

From Tiberius Claudius Zoilus. In accordance with the orders issued concerning the register of uninundated (land), I declare the ... arouras that belong to me around E... as uninundated in the current fourth year of our Lords, the Caesars Antoninus and Verus .... (the rest is very fragmentary)

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from Ali Mahmud, Behnasa, April 5, 1928

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 101

Further Literature

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