OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

12.5 x 9.5 cm.

Lines:

12

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. Only the two first lines (and the upper part of the third) are complete, of the rest only the left half has survived, and the papyrus is torn at the bottom. The top margin is 1 1/2 cm., the left margin 2 cm.

Content

Date:

October 6, 50 A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Contract of apprenticeship

Content:

Satornilos has given his nephew in apprenticeship to the weaver Theabennis

Subjects:

Weaving Profession Contract Apprenticeship

Named people:

Theabennis, son of Iranoupis, gerdios Satornilos, son of Satornilos Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, emperor

Named places:

Karanis

English translation:

10th kollema, 9th roll (sc. of the public archive)In the eleventh year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, in the month Apellaios, which is the 9th of Phaophi, in Karanis, district of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome. Satornilos, son of Satornilos, of Persian descent and 30 years of age, has apprenticed to the weaver Theabennis son of Iranoupis, 40 years old, of Persian descent, his deceased brother's ...... son, named ....., for ? years, so that he can learn the whole art of weaving within the aforementioned period, being absent neither by night nor by day from the house of Theabennis, he shall accompany him in accordance with the law (or: in the region) and shall do everything that he is ordered to. And the boy shall be fed and clothed by .............

Provenance:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 141
  ▾ Corrections:

  • BL III 127 (l.11)

Further Literature

Bergamasco M, ZPE 147 (2004), 155-156;Reiter F, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites. 2004, 22, note 4;Bergamasco M, Papiri e ostraka greci. 2005, 27-36;Bergamasco M, Studi di Egittologia e di papairologia 3 (2006) 55Reiter F, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites. 2004, 10, n. 7