OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

P.Oslo III 100, 101, 102, 104

Size:

4.3 x 8.3 cm.

Lines:

7

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The connected items are all written in different hands.

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. Very fragmentary. Broken on both sides and at bottom.What little is left of the top margin measures 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 ... that belong to me as uninundated in the current fourth year of our Lords, the Caesars Antoninus and Verus ...

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, 103

Further Literature

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