OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

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