OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8 x 23 cm.

Lines:

21

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The handwriting is individual and interesting, the language is rather bad Greek, the orthography inconsistent, at all events very incorrect. The papyrus is cris-crossed, a sign that the document has been cancelled.

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. Top margin is 3 cm, the left one 1 cm, the bottom is 2 cm, a small part of the lower right side is missing, otherwise the right side is cleanly cut.

Content

Date:

20 B.C.

Origin:

Sendrypaei, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Declaration of surety

Content:

Petesouchos gives surety to the centurion for the appearance of the woman Taphamounis against whom proceedings were pending.

Subjects:

Declaration Surety

Named people:

Petesouchos, son of Petesouchos Anchoriphis, centurion Taphamounis

Named places:

Sendrypaei (near Polydeukeia)

English translation:

Petesouchos, son of Petesouchos to Anchoriphis, centurion from Sendrypaei. I agree to give surety for Taphamounis belonging to those of the same village, and I shall produce her whenever you choose or be bound to pay eight and a half dromos artabae of wheat by the village measurement and I shall measure the wheat, which will be new, pure and unadulterated, in the village of Sendrypaei. Having measured, I shall get back (the abovementioned?) note of debt without any cause for complaint whatsoever.

Provenance:

Probably Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 30, picture: Pl.IIIa
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Bell HI, Mizraim I (1933), p. 190 (l.2)Schmidt KFW, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 194 (1932) p. 281 (l. 6, 11, 16f)BL 2,2, p.211 (l.17, 19)

Further Literature

Wilcken U, AFP 10, p. 85Bell HI, CAH 10 (1934), p. 286, n. 1Daris S, Documenti per la storia dell'esercito Romano in Egitto, Milano 1964. No. 72