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| Inventory number: |
P.Oslo inv. 326 |
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Background and Physical Properties
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| Material: |
Pap |
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| Size: |
20.5 x 12 cm. |
| Lines: |
Recto - 22;
Verso - 2 |
| Publication side: |
Recto; Verso address |
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| Date: |
IInd century A.D. |
| Origin: |
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt |
| Provenance: |
Unknown place, province of Egypt |
| Acquisition: |
Purchased by S.Eitrem in Egypt 1920 |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Genre: |
Documentary |
| Author: |
Zenarion |
| Title / Type of text: |
Private letter |
| Content: |
Letter from Zenarion to Theon about some trouble cncerning a shipment.
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| Subject headings: |
Mice; Cheese; Transport |
| Persons: |
Zenarion, sister (brother?) of Theon;
Theon, brother of Zenarion;
Serenos;
Homonoia;
Demetrion;
Agathous;
Eisarous;
(unnamed) kosmetes of Oxyrhynchus |
| Geographica: |
Oxyrhynchus |
| Translation: |
From Zenarion to her brother Theon. Greetings! (First of all) I pray that you are in good health. I (fetched?) seven cheeses; the sailor (said) that the (rest?) had been eaten by mice. Since you wrote that you have not received (neither the...) nor the cheeses whole ... for this reason ...not to give him for ... (Two and a half severely damaged lines). ...to be here, as (he) is needed. He writes blaming me ...not to be blamed at another time... Urge Serenos to come (to us?) as swiftly as possible, for we need him and, when he comes, he (will be like a star?) rising. Greet your mother and (brothers?), Homonoia and Demetrion. Greetings from Agathous, Eisarous and ... I wish you well.
Verso:
To Theon from Zena(rion?)
(2nd hand in the opposite direction): ...the one who held the office of the kosmetes in Oxyrhynchos
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| Series and Volume: |
P.Oslo II 52 |
| First Editor: |
Eitrem S-Amundsen L |
| Year: |
1931 |
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| Corrections: |
Schmidt, KFW, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 194 (1932) p. 284 (l. 15, 17f.)
Hagedorn D, ZPE 12 (1973) p. 280, n.13 (l. v 2) |
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| Bibliography: |
Bagnall & Cribiore, Women's letters from ancient Egypt 300 BC-AD 800, 2006, p.331-332 |
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