OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

P.Oslo inv. 1075

Size:

22 x 9.2 cm.

Lines:

10

Publication side:

Recto; the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

Written in careless, sloping letters and seems to be a copy of P.Oslo inv. 1075.

State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

January 26-February 24, 215 A.D.

Origin:

Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Antinous, son of Cronion

Title / Type of text:

Notification of death

Content:

Notification to Isidotus, royal scribe, from Antinous, about the death of his son Saprion.

Subjects:

Census Death Population control

Named people:

Isidotus, alias Origenes, royal scribe of Heraclides Antinous, son of Cronion Saprion, son of Antinous

Named places:

Heraclides, Arsinoite nome

English translation:

To Isidotus, also called Origenes, royal scribe of the division of Heraclides in the Arsinoite nome, from Antinous, son of Cronion, son of Sarapion, of the Platia' ...... quarter. My son Saprion, paying a poll-tax in the said quarter, died in the present month Mecheir of the present year. I therefore request that his name be placed on the list of the deceased persons, as in similar cases. I therefore present (this notification).

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

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

Acquisition year:

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Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 36, 1960, 47-48
  SB: VI 9627
• , CPapGr 2.1, 1985, 72b, picture: Tav. LXXI

Further Literature

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