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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 90

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number	Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 90
Publication Number	O.Bankes 31
Current Location	Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy
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]
Type of Discovery	find (unspecified) Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Bankes, William John Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	old stock
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1815 and 1818
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty:

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Dating	between 130 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top and right

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at top and right
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary,
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Modern Title	Receipt for contribution for river police boats (merismos potamophylakidon)
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Iunius Valens
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Receipt for contribution for river police boat, written by the scribe Iunius Valens, who works for the praktor Kalasiris;
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. l. 1: Val() boeth.; scribe known by hand
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	mother in filiation
Religion	unknown

Text

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Translation

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convex

x	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1	Ο̣ὐ̣ά̣λεντος β̣ο̣η̣θοῦ. διέ(γραψεν) Πετορζμῆθις
x+2	Πουήρεως μη̣τρὸς Ṭισᾶτιος ὑπ(ὲρ)
x+3	μερισμοῦ ποταμο̣φυλακίδων ιδ (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) -?-
x+4	(ἔτους) ιδ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου,
x+5	Τῦβ̣ι ι̣γ.

convex

x	(Kalasiris, tax collector, through Iunius)
x+1	Valens, assistant. Thus has paid Petorzmethis,
x+2	son of Poueris and the mother Tisatis, for
x+3	the contribution of river police boats ---
x+4	Year 14 of Hadrian the lord,
x+5	Tybi 13.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
12475	man	Iunius Valens	Iunius Valens	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	14	Tybi	13	130 January 8 CE	date in text, day incertain;

Pictures

31_O_Bankes_inv_90_S1_

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Literature

Worp, K. A., The Bankes ostraka from a box at Kingston Lacy: The Greek Texts (2016). (no. 31)

DatasetID	308539
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	699504
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.bankes;;31
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308539 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 90), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.