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Title Brief des Psenmonthes an Plenis
Author Psenmonthes
Summary The author of the letter asks a pastophoros to come and to bring the other pastophoros who is able to make gifts (or plaited baskets?) for the festival.
Citations Ostraca Lundensia (O. Lund.). Ostraka aus der Sammlung des Instituts für Altertumskunde an der Universität zu Lund, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Christos Tsiparis, Lund 1979, doctoral dissertation Ostraca Lundensia, herausgegeben und bearbeitet von Erik J. Knudtzon, Lund 1933 (1946), licentiate dissertation, not printed [Gallazzi, C., Bibliotheca orientalis, 39, 1982, c. 576; Perpillou-Thomas, F, Sur les emplois de ΘΑΛΛΟΣ, ΘΑΛΛΙΟΝ à l' époque romaine et byzantine, II. Ambiguïtés de sens entre ΘΑΛΛΟΣ et ΘΑΛΛΙΟΝ, Revue de études grecques, 108, 1995, p. 4; Nachtergael, G., Sur la provenance de quelques ostraca de la Collection de Lund, Ricerche di egittologia e di antichità copte 6, 2004, p. 91 (provenance); Heilporn, P., Un contrat thébain, Sixty-five papyrological texts: presented to Klaas A. Worp on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, vol. 33, 2008, p. 117, note 22; BL X, 292 (line 4); TM 74874]
Inv. Id O. Lund. inv. 1
Support/Dimensions Ostr.; 11.2 x 7.7 cm
Origin Memnoneia, Thebes; or Hermonthis; province of Egypt
More from Memnoneia, Thebes; or Hermonthis; province of Egypt
Language Greek
Date II A.D.
More from the period between 100 CE and 199 CE
Note (general) The O.Lund. inv. no is the number (written directly on the ostracon) given to each ostracon already by prof. Carl Schmidt, Berlin.
Note (general) O.Lund. inv. no 1 = Tsiparis' publ.no 13 = Knudtzon's publ.no 1
Note (general) Complete; with salt crystallizations; reddish brown; verso black, ribbed
Note (general) 7 lines on the recto; verso blank
Note (general) Mentions the names Plenis (addressee); Phomonthes, son of Phthomonthes and grandson of Hamsouphis
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Note (local/note) Location: Lund University Library
Subjects Ostraca; Letter (private); Pastophoros; Gifts(?); Baskets(?)
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

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APIS Translation (English)

(Tsiparis' translation) Psenmonthes Plenis, dem Sohn, einen Gruss. Komm zu uns und schaffe herbei den anderen Pastophoros, der imstande ist, die Festgaben zu verfertigen, und siehe den Phomonthes, den Sohn des Phthomonthes, Enkel des Hamsouphis.