OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

15 x 15,7 cm.7.1 x 14.3 cm.

Lines:

16

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

Written in a large, semi-uncial hand.

State of preservation:

The papyrus is dark brown and consists of two fragments. The left side of the top one (to l. 11) is complete, the top of the papyrus is broken, as is the right side. The bottom part of the lower fragment is complete, but a bit damaged. Both fragments are rather lacunose.

Content

Date:

Vth/VIth century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Petition from a group of vinedressers

Content:

The text is a petition concerning taxes for a vineyard, submitted by a group of vine-dressers.

Subjects:

Petition Taxation Agriculture Profession

Named people:

–

Named places:

Opion

English translation:

...for ... concerning the payment/tax of 150 dipla of wine per arura. We accordingly beg the magnificence of your eminence: what we can, we have given you, the measures of wine and the money-tax. Since we cannot work at the vine-dressing, grant once more that you, the magnificence of your eminence, also lower for us, according to your command, to 100 dipla per aroura, since we cannot transmit to you the wine-measures in full. (break)To the magnificence of your eminence, we, the partners of vine-dressers of the hamlet Opion, have submitted the petition.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M.Nahman, Cairo, 1934

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Forselv IL, SO 57, 1982, 130-136
  SB: XVI 12554

Further Literature

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