OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

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Size:

11 x 9.5 cm.

Lines:

Recto: 11;Verso: 1

Publication side:

Recto; address on the Verso

Palaeographic description:

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State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

Ist/IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Dionysios

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

Letter from Dionysios to his father, Philonikos.

Subjects:

Health Letter Food

Named people:

Dionysios, son of Philonikos Kallinikos Philonikos, father of Dionysios

Named places:

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English translation:

Dionysios to the master, his father, greetings. My health is as before. The night before yesterday I had a fever and would not eat, but this morning, thanks to god, I got well again. When I had got the sixty drachmae, I sent with Kallinikos, as you wrote me, both five pairs of bread and (a pot of) olives and six roasted cheeses and six sausages and ... numbers ... and ...Verso:To Philonikos

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased through British Museum 1928. (Inv. 569 bought in Fayum.)

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 152
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, p. 279 (l. 4)Schmidt KFW, Philologische Wochenschrift 58 (1938) p. 303 (l. 5)

Further Literature

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