OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

15.7 x 19 cm.

Lines:

Recto: 11;Verso: 1

Publication side:

Recto; address on the Verso

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Heron

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

Private letter from Heron to Didymos, asking him to go to Dionysias to buy covers for the tripods in some triclinium.

Subjects:

Letter Administration Furniture Cloth

Named people:

Heron Didymos Ptolemaios, archigrammateus

Named places:

Dionysias

English translation:

Heron to his most honoured Didymos greeting. The chief secretary Ptolemaios wrote to me that I ask you to go to Dionysias and buy covers for the tripods in the triclinium and, since it is a particular friend (of his) who has ordered this, to send them to him. I wrote to you knowing that you would do it. ..... Do it faster please, as your friend troubles us with his perpetual requests. I suppose his request will not be a burden to you since he is your friend. I also send you the letter from him. I pray that you are well, my lord.Verso: To Didymos from Heron.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt, 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 60

Further Literature

• Skarsouli, E. (2023). Honigsüsse und lastende Worte. Studien zur Äuserung von Emotionen durch metaphorischen Sprachgebrauch im Altgriechischen. Brill-Schöningh. On the metaphorical language of weight (ἐπιβαρεῖ l. 8 and φορτική ll. 9-10); see p. 132.