OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

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Size:

18.5 x 12 cm.

Lines:

Verso - 24 + 1 note in the left margin

Publication side:

Verso; the Recto is unpublished

Palaeographic description:

Written in a nice upright hand.

State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Aurelius Philantinous

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

Letter from Aurelius Philantinous to his father Aurelius Ploution concerning some commercial or industrial enterprise probably having some connection with the fabrication or sale of papyrus rolls

Subjects:

Papyrus Letter

Named people:

Aurelius Philantinous, son of Aurelius Ploution Aurelius Ploution Lytus Tatermouthis

Named places:

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English translation:

Aurelius Philantinous to his father Aurelius Ploution very many greetings. Before all I pray for your health and I make supplication for you before the gods of this place.Please would you be so kind, if you want (me?) to arrange the new enterprise for you and Lytus, to transmit the available (deposited) things? For I have made sixteen deliveries for each of you, so that you have thirtytwo together, the price of which, at the rate of twelve drachmae, will be 384 drachmae in all. So if you want (me?) to do that, you must send the available ..., together with a letter, in order that I may serve you early. I submit myself to you now at once, so as not to neglect anything, but if you do not send them ... I have proved to be without reproach.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M. Nahman, Cairo, Febr. 18. 1929

Acquisition year:

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Editions

• Eliassen M H de Kat, SO 44, 1969, 152-157
  SB: X 10724

Further Literature

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