OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.8 x 23.8 cm.

Lines:

32

Publication side:

Recto

Palaeographic description:

Written in a clear cursive hand.

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus

Content

Date:

October 6, 29 A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Ptolemaios, son of Hermios

Title / Type of text:

Lease of land

Content:

Ptolemaios son of Hermios declares that he has rented 14 arouras of clerouchic land from Limnaios son of Limnaios.

Subjects:

Contract Lease Land ownership

Named people:

Ptolemaios, son of Hermios Limnaios, son of Limnaios Marcus Aponius (?) Satornilus

Named places:

Karanis

English translation:

I, Ptolemaios son of Hermios, Persian of the epigone, have rented from Limnaios son of Limnaios the 14 arouras of clerouchic land that he himself farms in the property of Marcus A...ius (Aponius?) Satornilus (for Saturninus?) for the present sixteenth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, only for the sowing (in it) of wild chicklings, the grazing and folding of sheep, and to sow with vegetable seed; (the income will be divided) in five parts, three being Limnaios', the remaining two parts being mine, Ptolemaios. But the costs of transport, threshing and the winnowing (will be deduced) from my, i.e. Ptolemios' two parts, and Limnaios will receive the remaining three parts as stated above. All the rest of the farm work on the clerouchic land, the irrigation and planting and weeding will fall on me, Ptolemaios, excluding the seed corn. The price fetched for the wild chicklings will all be mine, i.e. Ptolemaios', while the rent and expenses will fall on Limnaios, and I shall do everything just as it has been stated above. In the sixteenth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, Phaophi 9. (2nd hand): the twenty-first year of Tiberius Caesar.

Provenance:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1923 through British Museum, with M. Nahman as the dealer. Cf. the reports and the inventory list by H. I. Bell

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 33, picture: Klio 22 (1929) pl.1 (after p.226)

Further Literature

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