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P.Oslo III 156 (inv. 776)

Background and Physical Properties

Material:
Papyrus
Connections:
Size:
11.3 x 7.4 cm.
Lines:
Recto - 11;Verso - 1
Publication side:
Recto; Verso address
Palaeographic description:
State of preservation:

Content

Date:
IInd century A.D.
Origin:
Unknown place, province of Egypt
Language:
Greek
Genre:
Documentary
Author:
Ammonios
Title / Type of text:
Private letter
Content:
Letter from Ammonios to the teacher Theon, concerning the teacher's salary, which is paid in the form of victuals.
Subjects:
Letter School Teachers Salary Transport Animal Food
Named people:
Ammonios Theon, kathegetes Achilleus, kamelitos Tatoes Harpalos
Named places:
English translation:
Ammonios to the teacher Theon, greeting. Before all I pray that you and all yours are in good health and that you leave to me whatever you want. State the price of the jar (of wine? of oil?) that I may send (the money) with the man who fetches (it). Provide for, through Achilles, the camel-driver of Harpalos, a basket of grapes, the only one which he (viz. the camel-driver) was able to carry.FarewellVerso:To Theon, the teacher of Tatoes.
Provenance:
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt
Acquisition:
Purchased January 27, 1929 from Ali Mahmud Derballah (Behnasa) at Beni Masar, Egypt. From Oxyrhynchus
Acquisition year:

Editions

  • Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 156, picture: Pl. XIIa,b

Further Literature

Discussions

  • Arzt-Grabner, P. (2023). Letters and Letter Writing. Brill Schöningh. On the positive sense of ἐπιτρέπω l. 4; see p. 157 n. 99.

Cribiore R, Gymnastics of the mind (2001), p. 87


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