OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

13.5 x 14.5 cm.

Lines:

11

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

The fragment is extracted from mummy-cartonnage and is probably from the same cartonnage as P.Oslo inv. 1669. The text is written against the fibres on the recto side. A kollema is visible between 1.2 and 1.3. No doubt the original roll was some 30 cm high, which means that more than half of the text is irretrievably lost.

Content

Date:

Late IIIrd century B.C.

Origin:

Possibly Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Petition to an epistates

Content:

The text is a petition or hypomnema addressed to the epistates Artemon by an unknown person concerning two sanctuaries, an ibis-temple and a shrine of Isis. Mention is also made of a kleros (military allotment) and the addressee is asked to write to the oikonomos Petosiris. The overall meaning and most of the details remain obscure because of the fragmentary state of the papyrus.

Subjects:

Petition Temple Administration Isis, Egyptian deity

Named people:

Artemon, epistates Petosiris, oikonomos

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Acquired in Egypt, 1954?

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Clarysse W-Quaegebeur J, SO 57, 1982, 75-81
  SB: XVI 12552

Further Literature

Van't Dack E, "L' Epistate Artemon", Anc.Soc. 20 (1989) p.149