OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

13.5 x 8.3 cm.

Lines:

14

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

IIIrd/IVth century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Letter

Content:

Directions arranged as a letter, with instructions as to how to find a certain person, possibly in Alexandria.The address may have accompanied a parcel.

Subjects:

Directions Address Nanaion Baths of Claudianus

Named people:

Claudianus Tullii Theon, son of Ammonas Ammonas, grammateus, father of Theon Phokion

Named places:

Alexandria?

English translation:

Directions: to the (dwelling) of Berenicianus opposite the Nanaion, where the bath of Claudianus (was), but the house of the Tullii is now. Ask there for Theon, son of Ammonas, former secretary of Phokion, but who is now (secretary of ?) the secretary of his estate.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Acquired by Eitrem in Egypt, March 1936

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M H de Kat, SO 56, 1981, 103-104
  SB: XVI 12550
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Daniel RW, ZPE 54 (1984) p. 85-86 (l. 8,10,13)van Minnen P, ? (l. 10)

Further Literature

Fowler DP, New directions, ZPE 59 (1985) 45-46; Llewelyn SR, The function of the semasia-texts. P.Oxy. XXXIV 2719 and SB XVI 12550, ZPE 104 (1994) 230-232