OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

22.3 x 15.9 cm.

Lines:

17

Publication side:

Recto; the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The hand-writing is very much like the ""bella scrittura documentaria"" of P.S.I. 1265

State of preservation:

The document is damaged in several places, and both bottom and probably more than half of its breadth are lost, so that the details of the agreement must remain unknown. Parts of the left and the right sides are lacking and the beginning is lost.

Content

Date:

After March 21, 377 A. D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Serena (?)

Title / Type of text:

Sale of part of a house

Content:

Contract concerning sale of part of a house.

Subjects:

Contract Sale House

Named people:

Aurelius, son of Johannes Johannes, son of Dorus Dorus Dionysius Baudus Serena Sarapammon

Named places:

Oxyrhynchus

English translation:

(Date, place (Oxyrhynchos), name of seller etc.) to Aurelius, son of Johannes son of Dorus and ... reader of the catholic church (greetings. I acknowledge to have sold to you ... from the present time) henceforth for ever the (half) share of a house and courtyard and cellar and ... belonging to me - which came into my possession (by ... from ... and ...) monk, both sons of Dionysius, their mother being De(... ...) of illustrious Baudus, the 25th of the month Phamenoth, and ..., in accordance with the security and the resulting share and ... which fell to each, (whereas ... had a deed drawn up?) - in the same city of Oxyrhynchus ... and of the aforesaid Serena ... the east corner in the cellar also a half share ... in accordance with the ... of Sarapammon ... at the price agreed upon ... so that henceforward you and your descendants shall possess and own (the half share of the house sold to you ...) and I will guarantee (this sale) perpetually against all charges with every guarantee and I will make it free from ... as in answer to the formal question I have declared my consent.Signatures.

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt, March 1936

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 52, 1977, 106-111
  SB: XIV 12021
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 55 (1984) p.159, n.16 (l.1) Sijpesteijn PJ, Aegyptus 68 (1968) p. 83 (l.1)

Further Literature

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