OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

18.5 x 9.3 cm.

Lines:

22

Publication side:

Verso, the Recto is published as P.Oslo III 115

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. Written in two columns, of col. I just the end of the lines is preserved, of column II, much of the right part is missing. Some of the top margin is preserved, measuring 1 1/2 cm. The bottom part is torn, and there are holes here and there.

Content

Date:

169-176(?) A.D.

Origin:

Probably Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Religious calendar concerning the imperial cult.

Content:

Remnants of a religious calendar, registering birthdays and memorial days of deified emperors and empresses.

Subjects:

Birthday Memorial day Calendar Religion Cult Emperor Sacrifice Performance

Named people:

Vesta Lucius Aurelius Verus, emperor Titus, emperor Hadrianus, emperor Lucius Aelius Caesar, emperor Aurelius Antoninus Caesar, emperor

Named places:

Roma

English translation:

(The beginning too incomplete to be translated) Dec.1: On the occasion of the arrival of the ........... Dec.4: On the occasion of the birthday of the goddess ...... Dec.11: On the occasion of the birthday of the Hestia in the Prytaneum a sacrifice is made to Ulpia (?). Dec.13: On the occasion of the God Hadrianus having fullfilled the second ten-years' term of his reign, a choral song (?). Dec. 15: On the occasion of the birthday of the God Lucius Aurelius Verus, a ceremony; Dec. 30: On the occasion of the birthday of the God Titus, a ceremony. Jan.: On the occasion of the return of our Lord Aurelius Antoninus Caesar to his capital Rome, a ceremony. Jan.13 (?) : On the occasion of the birthday of the God Lucius Aelius Caesar, a performance. On the occasion of .. (breaks off)

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

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

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 77, picture: Pl.II
  ▾ Corrections:

  • P.Oslo III (1936) 278 (l.21)

Further Literature

Smallwood EM, Documents illustrating the principates of Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. Cambr. 1966, no. 147;Vandoni M, Feste pubbliche e private nei documenti Greci. Milano 1964, no. 12Turner EG, 'Oxyrhynchus and Rome' in: Oxyrhynchus: a city and its texts, 2007, p.156, n.1