OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

7.6 x 7.4 cm.

Lines:

Recto - 10;Verso - 1

Publication side:

Recto; Verso address

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Heracleopolite or Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Lampadios

Title / Type of text:

Private letter

Content:

Letter from Lampadios to his brother Appollonios.

Subjects:

Letter

Named people:

Lampadios, brother of Apollonios and Skybalos Apollonios, brother of Lampadios Skybalos, brother of Lampadios

Named places:

Thmoinepsobdis

English translation:

Lampadios to my lord brother Apollonios, greeting. Since you do not want to do us a favour at your expence, I paid in Thmoinepsobdis 35 artabae (of ?). But also my brother Skybalos paid 24 ........ many ambiguous (?)Verso:To my lord brother Apollonios.

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 II, 1931, 61
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Preisendanz K, Philologische Wochenschrift 52 (1932) p. 233 (l. 9, 10)Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III (1936) p. 277 (l. 9)

Further Literature

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