OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

11 x 15 cm.

Lines:

8

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. The left margin is 2 cm, the bottom one 9.5 cm. The top part is missing, a clean cut at the right side.

Content

Date:

1st century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Petition for a summons

Content:

Petition that N.N. is ordered to remain in attendance at the court, so that he can be judged.

Subjects:

Summons Petition Court proceedings

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

... to order N.N. to remain in attendance at the law court of the prefect, wherever he may hold the next reckoning of taxes for the nome, so that I may obtain a judgement by him.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 19

Further Literature

Kelly B, Petitions, litigation, and social control in Roman Egypt, Oxford 2011. p. 95 n.73