OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

22.2 x 11.8 cm.

Lines:

21

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is unpublished

Palaeographic description:

The upright cursive of the first line grows rather sloping as the text goes on.

State of preservation:

The papyrus is broken in two along the middle one of the three vertical foldings, and the upper half of the left part is missing. But owing to the current formulae a fairly certain restoration is possible.

Content

Date:

August 27, 159 A.D.

Origin:

Theogonis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Saras, son of Diodoros

Title / Type of text:

Sublease of land

Content:

The document starts out as an application for lease of land, then becomes a contract as the lessor accepts the conditions proposed and signes the document.

Subjects:

Contract Lease Payment in advance Wheat Barley

Named people:

Orsenouphis, son of Harphaesis Saras, son of Diodoros Antoninus Caesar, emperor

Named places:

Theogonis

English translation:

To Orsenouphis, son of Harphaesis from Saras, son of Diodorus. I wish to lease from you for only the coming 23rd year of Antoninus Caesar the lord the 1 1/2 arourae or thereabouts of domain land which you are at present cultivating at the village Theogonis in the so-called Satme, to be sown with wheat and barley. Saras shall perform the work and furnish the seed-corn, Orsenouphis shall pay all state charges and all tax. And (he acknowledges that he has) received in advance from Saras the payment for the land, which is being sown(?), in full from hand to hand and that he will guarantee the land with every guarantee from claims made by any person.Orsenouphis aged about 42 years, with a scar on the calf of his right leg. The 22nd year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, the 4th intercalary day of the month Caesarius.

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

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

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Schreiner JH, SO 38, 1963, 38-42
  SB: VIII 9922
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Bingen J, Chr. d'Ég. 38 (1963) p. 323 (l.13)

Further Literature

Kränzlein A, ""Zu den Privatpacht-Hypomnemata der ersten zwei nachchristlichen Jahrhunderte"", Symposion 1977. Köln 1982, p. 321-322.