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Ostr. London, British Library 12162

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12162
Publication Number O.Wilck. 254
Current Location London, British Library
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 purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Chester, Greville John
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Krall, Jakob
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete

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) suface damaged and abraded, some passages not readable
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Petorzmethis boethos
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for contribution for statues and busts of the emperors (merismoi andrianton 2 kai protomon 2), for the building of watch towers (oikodomias skopelon) and for the price of public dates (time demosiou phoinikos)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Valerios Serenos and Palachemis, the two praktores argyrikon of Elephantine, through Petorzmethis, assistant, for the contribution of statues and busts of the emperors (merismos andrianton and protomon), for the building of watch towers (oikodomias skopelon), paid by Panapotis, son of Papremithes and Thinpetepoueris; on the same day also for the price of public dates (time demosiou phoinikos) on account of Pachompaouerseous, son of Patous.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corrections: l. 7, date Pachon 19. l. 6 tax and amount corrected according to WO 249. l. 10 name Pachomapouerseous
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation, woman as landowner
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1Οὐαλέριος Σερῆνος καὶ Παλ̣αχ̣ῆμις οἱ β
2πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης διὰ Πετορζμήθου βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν
3Παναπῶτις Παπρεμίθου μητρὸς Θιν̣-
4πετεπουῆρις ὑπὲρ μερισμῶν β (ἔτους) ἀνδριάντων καὶ πρ̣ο̣τομῶν
5τῶν κυρίων Καισάρων κατὰ μέρος (δραχμὰς) ι,
6κ̣α̣ὶ̣ οἰκο̣δομίας σ̣κ̣οπέλων (τριώβολον) χαλκοῦς γ 1ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ . (ἔτους) γ Ἀντωνίνου
7καὶ Οὐήρου Καισάρων τῶν κυρίων Παχὼν ι̣θ̣. 2ed. Π[α]χὼν ̣ ̣
8τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ αὐτὸς ὁμοίως
9ὑπ(ὲρ)ὑπὲρ τειμῆς 3 l. τιμῆς δημοσίου φοίνικος γενήματος τοῦ αὐτοῦ β (ἔτους)
10ὀνόματος Παχομπαουερσήους Παοῦ-
11τος (δραχμὴν) α (τριώβολον) (ἡμιωβέλιον).

1 ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
2 ed. Π[α]χὼν ̣ ̣
3 l. τιμῆς
convex
1Valerius Serenus and Palachemis, the 2
2collectors of money taxes at Elephantine, through Petorzmethis, assistant. Thus has paid
3Panapotis, son of Papremithes and the mother Thin-
4petepoueris, for the contribution of year 2 for statues and busts
5of the lords Caesares, in instalments, 10 dr.,
6and for the building of watch towers 3 obols 3 chalkoi. Year 3 of Antoninus
7and Verus Caesares the lords, Pachon 19?.
8on the same day, the same, ditto
9for the price of public dates of the harvest of the same year 2,
10on account of Pachompaouerseous, son of Paous,
111 dr. 3,5 ob.
BL_12162_S1_001
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BL_12162_S2_001
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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
    22375 man Pachompaouerseous, son of Paous Παχομπαουαρσήους Παοῦτος Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Marcus Aurelius + Verus 03 Pachons 19 163 May 14 CE date in text, day corrected.;

     

    Pictures

    BL_12162_S1_001
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    BL_12162_S2_001
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 308986
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 76821
    Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;254
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 308986 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12162), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.