OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

6.3 x 20.9 cm.

Lines:

24

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

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State of preservation:

Light brown papyrus

Content

Date:

January 7, 139 A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Horos, son of Thompekysis

Title / Type of text:

Notification concerning change of ownership of houses

Content:

Horos declares to the city scribe Apollonios that he wants to have his two sons de-registered from one house and registered in another one.

Subjects:

Notification Registration Ownership House

Named people:

Apollonios, grammateus poleos Horos, son of Thompekysis, priest of Sarapis Thaesis Thompekysis, son of Horos Horos, son of Horos Sintotoes, mother of Thompekysis and Horos Sarapis, god Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, emperor

Named places:

Oxyrhynchos

English translation:

(3rd hand): It has been filed/registered. (1st hand):To Apollonios, city scribe, from Horos son of Thompekysis son of Horos, his mother being Thaesis, from the city of Oxyrhynchos, pastophorus (priest) of Sarapis, the most great god. I wish from the present time onwards that my two sons Thompekysis and Horos, the mother of both being Sintotoes, be de-registered from the house I have from my mother in the quarter (2nd hand): Notos Dromos/South Street (1st hand): and be registered in the one I own in (2nd hand): the same (1st hand): quarter, having a half share in the house. Therefore I hand over this petition as due. In the 2nd year of the Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Tubi 12th (3rd hand) I got [the same?]

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Behnasa, April 5, 1928

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 105

Further Literature

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