OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

P.Oslo inv. 1074

Size:

20 x 10 cm.

Lines:

16

Publication side:

Recto; the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

Written in an upright, skilled hand.

State of preservation:

The lower part of the papyrus is broken and the text is therefore not complete.

Content

Date:

January 26 - February 24, 215 A.D.

Origin:

Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Antinous, son of Cronion

Title / Type of text:

Notification of death

Content:

Notification to Isidotus, royal scribe, from Antinous, about the death of his son Saption.

Subjects:

Census Death Population control

Named people:

Isidotus, alias Origenes, royal scribe of Heraclides Antinous, son of Cronion Saprion, son of Antinous Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Pius Augustus, emperor

Named places:

Heraclides, Arsinoite nome

English translation:

To Isidotus, also called Origenes, royal scribe of the division of Heraclides in the Arsinoite nome, from Antinous, son of Cronion, son of Sarapion, of the Platia' ...... quarter. My son Saprion, paying a poll-tax in the said quarter, died in the present month Mecheir of the present year. I therefore request that his name be placed on the list of the deceased persons, as in similar cases. I therefore present (this notification).The 23rd year of the Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Pius Augustus.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

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

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 36, 1960, 46-48
  SB: VI 9627
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Sijpesteijn PJ, SO 58 (1983) p. 129-132 (l. 16ff)
• , CPapGr 2.1, 1985, 72a, picture: Tav. LXX

Further Literature

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