OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8.3 x 9.5 cm.

Lines:

11

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus, Complete. Regularly cut off at the right, the top margin is missing, the left margin is 1 1/2 cm, as is the bottom one, which is a little torn.

Content

Date:

Ist century A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Account of expenditure concerning a club of pastophoroi.

Content:

List of expenditure for a club of priests

Subjects:

Clubs Priests Account Expenditures Temple

Named people:

Thonis, son of Teos Thompakhrates Ouerethonis Sentheus, son of Thoo- Thonis, god

Named places:

Oxyrhynxchos

English translation:

Account for the club of pastophoroi:Thonis son of Teos, 84 drachmai;To Thompakhrates, 66 drachmai;To the secretary, 5 drachmai;Common feast, 12 drachmai;Writing expenses, 4 drachmas;Small expenses, 24 1/2 obols;For the meeting in the temple of Thonis, 10 drachmai; To Sentheus, son of Thoo-, of the Damarion club, 8 drachmai;To Ouerethonis, 40 drachmai.In total 232 drachmai, 3 1/2 obols.

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Derballah (Behnasa) at Beni Masas, Jan. 27, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 143

Further Literature

Bagnall R, 'Family and society in Roman Oxyrhynchus', in: Oxyrhynchus, a city and its texts, 2007, p. 183, n. 8