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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 128

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 128
Publication Number O.Bankes 49
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 145 and 146
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at 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 right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Pachompsachis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for unidentified tax
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Zenon, tax farmer of the Sacred Gate of Syene through Pachompsachis, assistant, for unknown tax, paid by Harpaesis, son of Harpaesis and Tachnoubis.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok (incl. pap.nav.)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ζήνων Ἡρακλείδου μισθ(ωτὴς) ἱερ(ᾶς) πύλ(ης)
2Σοήνης διὰ Παχομψάχιος βοηθ(οῦ)·
3διέγραψεν Ἁρπαῆσις Ἁρπαήσεως (?)
4μητρὸς Ταχνού[βεως ὑπ(ὲρ) -?- (ἔτους)1 l. Ἀντωνίνου
5Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος
6το̣ῦ̣ κυρίου δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ -?-
7 ̣ ̣ ̣ , (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) η ̣-?-

1 l. Ἀντωνίνου
convex
1Zenon, son of Herakleides, tax farmer of the Sacred gate
2of Syene, through Pachompsachis, assistant.
3Thus has paid Harpaesis, son of Harpaesis?
4and the mother Tachnoubis, for ? of year ?
5of Antoninus Caesar
6the lord, eight drachmas ---
7---, = 8 dr. ---
49_O_Bankes_inv_128_S1
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • Σοήνης (places.xml#8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    15300 man Harpaesis, son of Harpaesis and Tachnoubis Ἁρπαήσις A // Ταχνούβεως Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Antoninus Pius 145 CE 146 CE date according to the collectors time of office;

     

    Pictures

    49_O_Bankes_inv_128_S1
    Reserved Copyright

     

    Literature

     

    DatasetID 308556
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 699522
    Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bankes;;49
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 308556 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 128), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.