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Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 156

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Wimborne Minster, Kingston Lacy estate, private collection John Bankes
Inventory Number Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 156
Publication Number O.Bankes 35
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 192 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Surface abraded

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Bienchis, signature of Mettis Tyrannos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for prosodou phoinikos
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Serenos the younger, son of Pachnoubis, and of Mettis Tyrannos, collectors of taxes in money and kind of Elephantine, through the assistant Bienchis, for prosodos phoinikos, for the harvest of year 32, paid by Tachnoumis on account of Thinpetorzmethis, daughter of Ammonios and Thinpsansnos, in year 33 of Commodus; with signature of Mettis (Tyrannos).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok (incl. corr. in pap.nav.)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender woman as taxpayer and as landholder
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Σερῆνο̣ς̣ νεώτερος Παχνο̣ύβιος καὶ Μέτις 1 l. Μέττιος Τύραννος πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν καὶ σιτικῶν
2Ἐλεφαντίνης διὰ Βιήγχεως βοηθοῦ· διέγραψεν Ταχνο̣ῦμις ὑπὲρ προσόδου
3φοινικῶνος γενήματος λβ (ἔτους) ὀνόματος Θινπετορζμήθιος Ἀμμωνίου μητρὸς Θινψανσνῶτος
4(δραχμὰς) β. (ἔτους) λγ //, Ἁδριανοῦ ιζ. (hand 2) Μέττις 2 l. Μέττιος σεσημίωμαι 3 l. σεσημείωμαι.

1 l. Μέττιος
2 l. Μέττιος
3 l. σεσημείωμαι
convex
1Serenos the younger, son of Pachnoubis, and Mettius Tyrannus, collectors for taxes in money and kind
2of Elephantine, through Bienchis, assistant. Thus has paid Tachnoumis for the proceeds
3of palm groves of the harvest of year 32, on the name of Thinpetorzmethis, daughter of Ammonios and the mother Thinpsansnos,
42 dr. Year 32//, Hadrianos 17. (hand 2) Mettios, I have signed.
35_O_Bankes_inv_156_S1
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • Ἐλεφαντίνης (places.xml#3)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    27075 man Bienchis, scribe (late) Βιήγχ(εως) pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Commodus 33 Hadrianos 17 192 December 14 CE date in text;

     

    Pictures

    35_O_Bankes_inv_156_S1
    Reserved Copyright

     

    Literature

     

    DatasetID 308575
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 699508
    Papyri.info ddbdp/o.bankes;;35
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 308575 (= Ostr. Wimborne Minster, Private collection Bankes 156), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.