OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

31.5 x 14 cm.

Lines:

7

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The text is written against the fibres, no doubt on the recto surface of the papyrus.

State of preservation:

The papyrus was extracted from cartonnage (remnants of mummy linen are still attached to its upper edge) and consists of four fragments, the upper left hand portion being lost. Probably from the same cartonnage as P.Oslo inv. 1672.

Content

Date:

2nd half of the IIIrd century B.C.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Official letter

Content:

Letter from an official to an unnamed person, with a complaint on behalf of Stotoetis, an ibis-burier.

Subjects:

Letter Complaint Temple Woman

Named people:

Stotoetis, ibiotaphos

Named places:

Pso...

English translation:

[---] Stotoetis, an ibis-burier from Pso [--] has [written ?] to us [contending?] that you have [admitted?] a certain woman into the Tharesieion, though Stotoetis objected that she had no claim to (anything in) the temple. I am therefore surprised that [you] have ordered such a thing -- without attending to the rules of the temples. You will therefore do well to let Stotoetis in peace in the temple and, if the woman makes any objection, to send her to the town in order to be judged against Stotoetis by myself and the priests. [Farewell, year.] 1, Mecheir 13.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Acquired in Egypt, 1954?

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Traversa A, SO 36, 1960, 49-64
  SB: VI 9628
• Clarysse W, Quaegebeur J, SO 57, 1982, 69-74
  SB: XVI 12551
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Van't Dack E, Anc.Soc. 20 (1989) p.147-149 (l.1, 7)

Further Literature

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