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Ostr. London, Petrie Museum UC 32655

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, Petrie Museum, University College
Inventory Number	Ostr. London, Petrie Museum UC 32655
Publication Number	O.Petr. Mus. 259 O.Petrie 191
Current Location	London, Petrie Museum
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	donation
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Brocklehurst, Marianne Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Mallon, Alexis SJ Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 119 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Surface abraded and damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	suface damaged and abraded
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of scribe Sarapion of the praktor Sanmous
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion, scribe of Sanmus praktor
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt of praktor Sanmous for contribution for river police boats of year 3 and 2 of Hadrian, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Phanopis (= Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis, O.Wilck. 94, SB 9545, 25); written by the scribe Sarapion. Museum: "Pottery ostracon, with 5 lines of Greek, receipt of river guard tax."
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 4: arg() dr. [duo, kai hyper 2 (etous)] l. 5: end: Phar[m(outhi) ? ]. tax payer is the same as in SB 9545, 25.
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

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1	Σα̣νμοῦς πράκτωρ δι̣έ̣γραψε Πα-
2	χνοῦβις Φαν̣ώ̣φ̣ε̣ω̣ς̣ ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ
3	πο̣ταμο̣φυλακίδων γ (ἔτους) Ἁ̣δ̣ρ̣ι̣α̣νοῦ το̣ῦ
4	κ̣υρίου ἀρ̣γ̣(υρίου) (δραχμὰς) δύο, καὶ ὑπ(ὲρ) β (ἔτους) ¹ed. [δραχμὴν μίαν] τριώβολον
5	Σαραπίων γραμματεὺς ἔ̣γραψα Φα̣ρ̣μ̣(οῦθι) ? ²ed. ἔ̣γρα̣(ψα) Traces

¹ ed. [δραχμὴν μίαν]
² ed. ἔ̣γρα̣(ψα) Traces

convex

1	Sanmous, tax collector. Thus has paid Pa-
2	chnoubis, son of Phanophis, for the contribution
3	for river police boats of year 3 of Hadrian the
4	the lord, two silver drachmas, and for year 2 three obols.
5	Sarapion, scribe, I have written. Pharmouthi ?.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
22685	man	Pachnoubis, son of Phanophis	Παχνοῦβις Φανώφεως	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	03	Pharmuthi		119 March 27 CE 119 April 25 CE	date in text, month incertain.;

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Literature

DatasetID	307710
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	75449
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.petr.mus;;259
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307710 (= Ostr. London, Petrie Museum UC 32655), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.