OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

11.2 x 6.9 cm.

Lines:

20

Publication side:

Recto

Palaeographic description:

The papyrus is written in a clear professional hand. Traces of writing on the Verso and in the left margin.

State of preservation:

Upper left part of the papyrus is missing, broken at the top. Left margin 1.5 cm. Regularly torn on the right side. Bottom breaks off after l. 20.

Content

Date:

May 22, 161? A.D.

Origin:

Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Amatius, son of Soterichos

Title / Type of text:

Repayment of a loan through a bank

Content:

Amatius acknowledges that Ptolemaios has repaid, through a bank, the money he owed him.

Subjects:

Loan Bank Repayment Receipt Money-lending

Named people:

Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, emperor:Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus,emperor Amatius, son of Soterichos Ptolemaios, son of Areius Souchammon Sabinus

Named places:

Arsinoiton polis

English translation:

First year of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, Pachon 27th through the bank of Souchammon in the quarter of the Macedonians. Amatius son of Soterichus (notifies) to Ptolemaios son of Areius that he has received from Amatius the x silver dr. which he owed him in accordance with a draft of the bank of Sabinus in the quarter of the Macedonians, which draft he has surrendered to him to be cancelled ...

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

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

Acquisition year:

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Editions

• Schreiner JH, SO 44, 1969, 148-151
  SB: X 10723

Further Literature

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