OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

6.4 x 4.5 cm.

Lines:

6

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The document is written in a hasty, but still neat-looking hand-writing.

State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

180 - 193? A. D.

Origin:

Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

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Title / Type of text:

Oath by sitologoi

Content:

Contains the upper right corner of a declaration sworn by a group of sitologoi, who were liturgic officials. The oath at the beginning of the declaration is probably a promissary oath.

Subjects:

Declaration Oath Officials Sitologoi

Named people:

Heron, son of Heron Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus, emperor

Named places:

Themistes meris, Arsinoite nome Polemon meris, Arsinoite nome

English translation:

To ... strategus of the divisions of Themistes and Polemon in the Arsinoite nome. We ... Heron, son of Heron, and ... (having been presented for) the office of keepers of the public granary, along with others, of the present ... year ..., swear by the fortune of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus ... about the tax(es) ...

Provenance:

Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

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Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 52, 1977, 104-106
  SB: XIV 12020
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 55 (1984) p. 159 (l. 5/6)

Further Literature

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