OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9 x 14.4 cm.

Lines:

Col I: 17Col.II: 22

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is published as P.Oslo III 194

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus, top margin 1.4 cm., what remains of left margin 1.5 cm. only the beginnings of the lines of col. II are preserved. The two returns have been gummed together in the official bureau.

Content

Date:

163/164 A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Col.I: Ptolemaios, son of Orsenouphis; Col.II: Julianus

Title / Type of text:

Returns of unwatered land

Content:

Two reports concerning unflooded land, one from a certain Ptolemaios, the other from the veteran Julianus.

Subjects:

Report Irrigation Psenarpsenis

Named people:

Sokmenis, komogrammateus Ptolemaios, son of Orsenouphis Maecenas Camellus Antoninus Augustus, emperor Verus Augustus, emperor ...rus Julianus, veteran

Named places:

Karanis

English translation:

Col.I: To Sokmenis, village scribe of the village Karanis, from Ptolemaios, son of Orsenouphis, from the village Karanis. In accordance with the orders issued, I register the 5 arouras that I cultivate near the said village Karanis, that belong to the 23rd division, the Psenarpsenis, of the property of Maecenas and of the property of Camellus, as uninundated in the present 4th year of the Lords Antoninus and Verus, Augusti. Therefore I submit. I, Ptolemaios, 17 years old, marked with a scar on the right thumb, ....... have signed.Col.II: To Sokmenis, village scribe of the village Karanis. From ...rus Julianus, veteran. In accordance with the orders issued, I register the [number] arouras that I cultivate near the said village Karanis, that belong to the catoecic klerouchia and have been entered for taxation to ... and to ... as uninundated in the present 4th year of the Lords, Antoninus and Verus, Augusti. Therefore I submit. I, the veteran (?) Julianus, submit.

Provenance:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, 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, 26a
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Gonis N, ZPE 126 (1999), p. 209 (l.21-22)

Further Literature

Preaux C, Chr d'Eg. 38 (1963) p.126Derda T, Arsinoites nomos. Warsaw 2006, p. 207