OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.2 x 25.4 cm.

Lines:

–

Publication side:

Verso, the Recto is published as P.Oslo 26

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

5th/4th century B.C.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

List or account

Content:

List or account of various items. The writing is very much effaced and to a large extent illegible.

Subjects:

Lentils Sandals Mattress

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Bought from natives of Behnasa, 28.3. 1928. Part of a joint purchase of Columbia, Michigan, Princeton and Oslo universities

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 191
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Balconi C, Aeg. 56 (1976), s. 221, note 1 (date)P.Oxy. 59 (1992), 4002, n. to 12-13 (l.2)

Further Literature

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