OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.1 x 15.5 cm.

Lines:

Recto - 12; Verso - 3

Publication side:

Recto; address on the Verso

Palaeographic description:

The 3. line of the address on the Verso is written in a second hand, across the fibres (with red ink)

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

IVth century A.D.

Origin:

Pentaso, Memphite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Ambrosios

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

Private letter from Ambrosios presbyter to his son.

Subjects:

Letter Priests

Named people:

Ambrosios, prophetes Hermeias, hiereus Helladios Hesychios, speculator

Named places:

Pentaso

English translation:

... (from?) Ambrosios. Then if you have the opportunity, put off everything, and come with your wife. We need you especially from now on, since we are in difficulties. And in any case it was ..... from my letters, that a stranger ......For our priest Hermeias is dead. And I recommended you to my lord Helladios, but also my master Hesychios, the overseer, was told, likewise in the village, by a friend, about ...Be well, together with our son and our mother.Verso:From Ambrosios, prophetes ... in PentasoWritten across the fibres in red ink:(Second hand) From my father......

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by S. Eitrem in Egypt, 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 59
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Preisendanz K, Philologische Wochenschrift 52 (1932) p. 231 (l. 5, 6, 10)Schmidt KFW, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 194 (1932) p. 285-286 (l. 4, 5, 6, 10f., verso)Eitrem S- Amundsen L, P.Oslo III (1936) p. 276 (l.13)

Further Literature

Choat-M, Belief and cult in fourth-century papyri. 2006, p. 140, 166