OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

15 x 18.5 cm.

Lines:

14

Publication side:

Recto (Verso: blank)

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Light brown papyrus. Top margin 1 cm. The left one is 2 cm. Bottom margin 6 cm. Cut on the right side.

Content

Date:

324 and 325 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Thonios

Title / Type of text:

Receipts

Content:

Two receipts to the farmer Papnouthis from Lolliane, for paid rent of land.

Subjects:

Receipt Contract Rent Lease of land

Named people:

Thonios, pronoetes Papnouthis, georgos Lolliane, also called Ploutiaina

Named places:

–

English translation:

Lolliane, also called Ploutiaina, greets the farmer Papnouthis through me, the administrator Thonios. I have received from you as rent for the land you farm: for the 12. indiction, 2 1/4 artabai and 6 choinices wheat, total of 2 1/4 artabai and 6 choinices of wheat, plus 800 silver drachmas, and meat and chaff. In the 19. and the 17th and the 9th year, the 6th of the month Thoth. I, Thonios, have confirmed this. The same person, Papnouthis, has paid rent also for the 13th indiction. He has delivered 2 1/4 artabai and 6 choinices wheat, and 800 drachmas in tax, plus the part owed to you of meat and chaff. In the 19th and 9th and 1st year, the 30th of the month Epeif. I, the administrator Thonios, have signed.

Provenance:

Unknown place, 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, 44
  ▾ Corrections:

  • P.Oxy. 55, 3790, l. 7 (l.1)

Further Literature

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