OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

15.7 x13.2 cm.

Lines:

Recto - 5;Verso - 1

Publication side:

Recto; Verso address?

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Fragment, the top is lost.

Content

Date:

June 29, 60 A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

Letter to Limnaeus.

Subjects:

Letter

Named people:

Limnaeus Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, emperor

Named places:

–

English translation:

........Farewell. In the holy seventh year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, June 29Verso: To the dearest Limnaios.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1923 through British Museum. Cf. the reports and the inventory list written by H.I.Bell

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen-L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 149
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Geraci G, Aegyptus 70 (1990) p. 106, n.38 (date)

Further Literature

Montevecchi O, Etous hebdomou hierou Neronos, Aegyptus 51 (1971) 212-220