OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

11 x 7.7 cm.

Lines:

5

Publication side:

Verso, the Recto is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. Left margin 3 cm., some line endings are missing. The bottom 4 cm. are blank.

Content

Date:

IInd/early IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Probably Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Sub-literary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Horoscope

Content:

Horoscope of Protarchos

Subjects:

Subliterature Horoscope Astrology Magic Religion

Named people:

Protarchos

Named places:

–

English translation:

The birth of Protarchos, son of ..., (born) in the seventeenth year, on the 8th of Pharmouthi, the x hour at night. The Saturn was in Scorpio: the horoscope/ascendant (was) in Leo; Mars (was) in Sagittarius; Venus and Mercury (were in) ...

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L.Amundsen from M.Nahman, Cairo, Febr. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 164

Further Literature

Neugebauer O, Greek horoscopes, 1959, p. 49-50 no. 177