OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

6 x 27 cm.

Lines:

37

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

October 28/November 11, 22 A.D.

Origin:

Euhemeria, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Dionysios

Title / Type of text:

Petition to the strategus

Content:

Complaint and petition to the strategos to apprehend and punish some herdsmen who have let their flocks graze on the estate of Antonia.

Subjects:

Petition Complaint Herders Sheep Crops

Named people:

Dionysodoros, strategos of the Arsinoite nome Dionysios, proestos Antonia, widow of Drusus Drusus Chaeremon, son of Sarapion Petesouchos, son of Labatas Vartetias, son of Labatas Psosneus Caesar Tiberius Augustus

Named places:

Arsinoite nome Philadelphia ousia of Antonia

English translation:

To Dionysodoros, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, from Dionysios, agent of the estate of Antonia, widow of Drusus, in the centre of the farmstead. I have been informed by Chairemon, son of the farmer Sarapion, that on the first of the month Neos Sebastos (October 28) of the ninth year of Caesar Tiberius Augustus, the herdsmen Te..., son of Horos, Vartetias and Petesouchos, sons of Labatas and Psosneus, all from Philadelphia, had let their flocks into Antonias Anoubis-allotment and allowed them to graze down her stores of wheat and caused a loss of 10 arourae of wheat. I beg you to write to the chief of police of Philadelphia in order to have the culprits brought before you for the necessary punishment.---------------Farewell. (2nd hand) The 16th (November 11). Send them up.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by S. Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Amundsen L-Eitrem S, P.Oslo III, 1936, 123
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Amundsen L-Eitrem S, P.Oslo III, p. 279 (l.10)Zucker F, Festschrift Oertel (1964) p. 105 (l.22)Vidman L, Misc.Pap. (1990) p. 528 (l.5)

Further Literature

Tomsin A, Studi in onore di A. Calderini e R. Paribene II, p. 212.Kruse T, Der königliche Schreiber, München 2002, p. 36-38.Derda T, Arsinoites nomos. Warsaw 2006, p. 89, 91, 95 n.100Kelly B, Petitions, litigation, and social control in Roman Egypt, Oxford 2011, p.43 nn. 19-20, 70 n. 123, 97 nn. 85-7, 214, 271