OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8.8 x 9 cm

Lines:

7

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

February 25-March 26, 442 A.D.

Origin:

Antinoopolis, Antinoopolite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Aurelius

Title / Type of text:

Declaration on oath

Content:

Declaration of guarantee given to the police, possibly concerning some person's appearance within a certain time or his staying at a certain place.

Subjects:

Declaration Oath Police

Named people:

Aurelius Flavius Cyrus, consul Theodosius, emperor Valentinianus, emperor

Named places:

Antinoopolis

English translation:

After the consulship of Flavius Cyrus, the most illustrious, Phamenoth ..., to ..., night-strategus in office of Antinoopolis (the most illustrious), from Aurelius. I acknowledge, swearing by the almighty God and the divine and heavenly Fortune of our all victorious sovereigns Theodosius and Valerianus, the eternal Augusti, ...

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem from Nahman in Cairo, Egypt 1936

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 49, 1973, 54-55
  SB: XIV 11434
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Bagnall R, Consuls of the later Roman empire, 1987, p.419 (l.1 and date)

Further Literature

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