OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

7.8 x 4.6 cm.

Lines:

15

Publication side:

Recto; the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Only the middle part of the document is preserved, it is broken on the left as well as the right side. The top is preserved, at the bottom it is broken off.

Content

Date:

(Late) IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Tholthis, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Lease of land

Content:

Fragment of a lease of land from the village of Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

Subjects:

Agriculture Lease Land ownership

Named people:

Aurelius Achilles

Named places:

Tholthis

English translation:

To Aurelius Achilles (...) and however he is styled through M..., his agent, from N.N., (...) his mother being Ta... of my own free will I undertake to lease from you (...) dating from the present (...) year (...) the holdings belonging to you at the village Tholthis (..) from another or other parcels (...) previously cultivated by me (to sow annually) the one half (with) ......, the other half (to plant with .... the seed and .... at an annual rent of) ..... artabas of wheat.

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Bought from natives of Behnasa, 28.3. 1928. Part of a joint purchase of Columbia, Michigan, Princeton and Oslo universities

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Forselv IL, SO 53, 1978, 107-109
  SB: XIV 12025

Further Literature

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