OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

P.Harris II

Size:

23 x 5.5 cm.

Lines:

14

Publication side:

Verso, the Recto published as P.Oslo III 135

Palaeographic description:

Written on the back of P.Oslo III 135, along the fibres.

State of preservation:

Light to medium brown papyrus. Left margin is 1 1/2 cm, the bottom margin of column II 2 cm.

Content

Date:

296-307 A.D. (?)

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Philantinoos

Title / Type of text:

Orders for delivery of wine

Content:

Various orders for delivery of wine, made by Philantinoos on behalf of Seuthes.

Subjects:

Orders Delivery Wine Workers Vineyard

Named people:

Herakleus Seuthes Philantinoos Ammonios, son of Ptolemaios Thonios, son of Apollotas, georgos Apollotheon

Named places:

–

English translation:

Col.I: To Herakleus from Seuthes through me, Philantinoos, greetings. Give to Ammonios son of Ptolemaios 4 more jars of wine, that is 4 jars. And three jars of wine to drink for the landowner, while he is stopping here in the month of Tybi, that is 3 jars. By the order of the landowner, one jar for those doing work on the vineyard for the renewal of the newly planted vineyard, that is 1 jar.Col.II: To the farmer Thonios son of Apollotas, for the price of 60 empty jars, 1200 drachmae a piece, which equals 5 - no, 4 jars of wine, that is 4 jars (that is 5 jars). By the order of the landowner, ten jars of wine to Apollotheon, that is 10 jars.

Provenance:

Possibly Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite 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 III, 1936, 146
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Bagnall R, Currency and inflation in fourth century Egypt (BASP Supl. 5, 1985) p. 58 (date)

Further Literature

Hickey TM, Wine, wealth, and the state in Late Antique Egypt. Ann Arbor 2012, p.42 n.22