OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

13 x 10.5 cm.

Lines:

11

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The text is written in a high and airy cursive.

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

1 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Fragment of a contract

Content:

Seems to be a contract between a pastophoros and two or more women.

Subjects:

Contract Priest Woman

Named people:

...apios, daughter of Mysthos Serapis

Named places:

–

English translation:

... 24 drachmae, in which is also ...apios, daughter of Mysthos ... by mutual consent ... concerning (the plots) belonging to ... of the pastophoros of the great god Serapis ... and the adjacent plots ... if (she consents) ... to give her ... from where the measures (are taken) ... as aforesaid ... from the aforementioned (conditions) ...

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Acquired by professor Eitrem, through Maurice Nahman, in Egypt March 1936

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Forselv IL, SO 58, 1983, 126-128
  SB: XVI 12988

Further Literature

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