Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 67 (P. Oxy. 67) contains three letters about a dispute concerning property, written inGreek. The manuscript was written onpapyrus in the form of a sheet. It was discovered byGrenfell andHunt in 1897 inOxyrhynchus. The document was written on 28 March 338. Currently it is housed in theBritish Library (754) inLondon. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898.[1]
The first letter is addressed to Aurelius Aetius by Aurelius Ptolemaeus. The second is a letter concerning the same matter from Flavius Theodorus Antonius,praefect of Egypt. The third letter is from Ptolemaeus to the praefect, asking him to act as a judge in the matter. The letters are thus contained in the papyrus in reverse chronological order. There are two existing copies of this papyrus. The text published by Grenfell and Hunt is a collation of the contents of the two copies. The measurements of the fragment are 257 by 364 mm.[2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: B. P. Grenfell; A. S. Hunt (1898).Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.