OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

7 x 9.8 cm.

Lines:

10

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

IInd or IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Horeion

Title / Type of text:

Letter

Content:

Letter from Horeion to Apollonios, asking him to send a medicine chest with some medicines.

Subjects:

Letter Medicine

Named people:

Horeion Apollonios

Named places:

–

English translation:

Horeion to his father Apollonios, greeting. Receive by letter 908 silver drachmae that I sent with a lodger (tenant?).Send me the medicine chest and ask the doctor for the bitter medicine and the other sweeter one.I pray that you are well.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1928 through British Museum.No I(5) of the inventory list written by H.I.Bell

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 54

Further Literature

• Skarsouli, E. (2023). Honigsüsse und lastende Worte. Studien zur Äuserung von Emotionen durch metaphorischen Sprachgebrauch im Altgriechischen. Brill-Schöningh. On ἡδύς (l. 9) used literally in the communication of taste; see p. 172.