OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

11.4 x 6 cm.

Lines:

12

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Contains the upper left part of the document. It seems that at least half of the breadth of the document is lacking, probably about 15 letters.

Content

Date:

(before?) 98 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Aphrodisios

Title / Type of text:

Complaint

Content:

Complaint with petition to the strategos Arrius Herakleides from Aphrodisios, concerning a theft done by a certain Petheus and some others.

Subjects:

Complaint Petition Theft

Named people:

Aphrodisios Arrius (Arrios) Herakleides, strategos Petheus

Named places:

Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome

English translation:

To Arrios Herakleides, strategos of the division of Herakleides (of the Arsinoite nome) from Aphrodisios (son of ...) weaver, from (the village of ...). In the evening (of the x day) of the current month (...) a certain Petheus and (... and) others joining (those from?) the village approached (...) and having no (...) they snatched away ...

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 56, 1981, 101-103
  SB: XVI 12549

Further Literature

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