OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

6.1 x 5.2 cm.

Lines:

6

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

The papyrus is complete. No margin on the left side, barely 1/2 cm on the right side, top margin 1.5 cm, the bottom one 0.5 cm.

Content

Date:

IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Note concerning lists of penthemeros

Content:

Instruction about not drawing up the lists of penthemeros before having gone to the office of the strategos.

Subjects:

Lists Penthemeral dike corvee

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

Do not draw up the lists of the five days' corvées prematurely, before you have gone to the office of the strategus.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M.Nahman, Cairo, 1934

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 40, 1965, 47-48
  SB: VIII 9925

Further Literature

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