OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

3.9 x 5.2 cm.

Lines:

6

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

The papyrus is complete, maximum 0.5 cm. margins on both sides, top and bottom.

Content

Date:

June 27, 195 A.D.

Origin:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Kopres

Title / Type of text:

Penthemeros certificate

Content:

Certificate that Kopres, son of Ap... Ptol..., has worked five days on the embankments.

Subjects:

Certificate Penthemeral dike corvee Work Dike Irrigation Taxation

Named people:

Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus, emperor Kopres, son of Ap... Ptol...

Named places:

Tebtynis dioryx Polemon

English translation:

The third year of Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus. Has worked for the embankment works of the third year from Payni the 29th to Epeiph the 3rd in the desert canal of Polemon, on behalf of Tebtunis, for the five days' work: Kopres, son of Ap( ) Ptol().

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 40, 1965, 47
  SB: VIII 9924

Further Literature

Pintaudi R, ""Certificati di penthemeros da Tebtynis nella collezione Martin Schøyen (MS 180)"", Chr d'Eg 80 (2005) p. 215-218.