OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

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Size:

13.5 x 7.7 cm.

Lines:

Recto - 9; Verso -1

Publication side:

Recto; address on the Verso

Palaeographic description:

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State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Iustus

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

Private letter from Iustus to Ploution, asking him to make various purchases.Verso address.

Subjects:

Letter Cloth Clothing

Named people:

Iustus Ploution

Named places:

Bousiris Diospolis Saïs

English translation:

Justus to the dearest Ploution, many greetings. It would be nice if you in Bousiris could buy two linen tunics, coarse, clean (Schmidt: thick) and good, for the amount of up to 40 drachmae, a nice pair of cross-woven cloths from Diospolis, a single bathing towel, a good half-cushon, if you find a bigger one - see to it that you do not forget anything - another cheaper one from Saïs ...Verso:Give to Ploution.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1923 through British Museum, with M. Nahman as the dealer. Cf. the reports and the inventory list by H. I. Bell

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 56
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Schmidt KFW, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 194 (1932) p. 285 (l. 4)

Further Literature

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