OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

17 x 6.3 cm.

Lines:

22

Publication side:

Recto; the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The body of the contract is written in an uneven hand-writing; the letters are here broad and fairly upright, there small and more cursive. The hand of the subscription is quite regular and easier to read.

State of preservation:

Only the right part of the document is preserved. The top of the document is broken, so that date and place and the opening words are missing.

Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Heraklas, son of Heraklas & Kroniaina, daughter of Athenion and mother of Heraklas

Title / Type of text:

Loan of wheat

Content:

Confirmation of a loan of wheat given by Patron to Heraklas and his mother Kroniaina.

Subjects:

Agriculture Loan (Wheat) Contract Illiteracy

Named people:

Heraklas, son of Heraklas Kroniaina, daughter of Athenion and mother of Heraklas Patron, son of Hera... Heras, son of Herak...

Named places:

Tebtynis

English translation:

Heraklas, son of Heraklas, (... aged about ... years ...) and Kroniaina, daughter of Athenion, aged about (...) years, (...) of the village of Tebtynis, with her guardian, her own son Heraklas, acknowledge to Patron, son of Hera(...), aged about thirty years, having a scar on (...) his forehead, that they have received from him, Patron, a loan of four artabas of wheat, measured by the four-choinikes measure (of Tebtynis?) owned by him, Patron, and that the acknowledging parties will repay (the loan) on mutual security in the month of Payni of the current year, without delay, Patron having the right of execution on the acknowledging persons and upon whichsoever of them he may choose, and upon all their property, as if in accordance with a legal decision, and in answer to the formal question they have given their consent. (2nd hand) We, Heraklas, son of Heraklas, and my mother Kroniaina, daughter of Athenion, with me as her guardian, have received from Patron a loan of four artabas of wheat, which we will repay as aforesaid.Heras, son of Herak(...), has written for them, the parties being illiterate. Docket of the record-office at Tebtynis.

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 53, 1978, 100-104
  SB: XIV 12023
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 55 (1984) p. 159 (l. 4, 16)
  • Armoni C-Kruse T, ZPE 140 (2002) p. 170 (l.15-16)

Further Literature

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