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Ostr. London, British Library 12476

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 12476
Publication Number O.Wilck. 243
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
Dating between 157 and 158
Criteria for Dating date according to parallel text O.Wilck. 232
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 scribe Ammonios I
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for the price of public dates
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content receipt of Ammonios and Sokrates, the two praktores argyrikon of Elephantine for the price of public dates (time demosiou phoinikos), paid by Menophilos, son of Orabais, on account of a certain Petesouchos, son of Harpaesis?.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1, 3 4. new supplies in lacuna. 3-5, date year 21 according to parallel in O.Wilck. 232.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Ἀμμώνιος καὶ Σωκρατίων 1ed. Σωκ(ράτης) οἱ β πράκ(τορες)
2ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης. διέγραψεν Μηνόφιλος
3μείζων Ὀρβάιτος ὀνόματος Πετεσοῦχος Ἁρπ(αήσεως) ὑπ(ὲρ) 2 Πετε[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὑπ(ὲρ)]
4τειμῆς 3 l. τιμῆς δημοσίου φοίνικ(ος) γενήμ(ατος) κ? (ἔτους) 4ed. [φοίνικος ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]
5δραχμὰς τρῖς 5 l. τρεῖς ὀβολοὺς δύο (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) γ (διώβολον). (ἔτους) κα?
6Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣

1 ed. Σωκ(ράτης)
2 Πετε[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὑπ(ὲρ)]
3 l. τιμῆς
4 ed. [φοίνικος ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]
5 l. τρεῖς
convex
1Ammonios and Sokration, the 2 collectors
2of money taxes at Elephantine. Thus has paid Menophilos,
3the elder, son of Orbais, on account of Petesouchos, (son of Harpaesis?),
4for the price of public dates of the harvest of year 20?,
5three drachmae, two obols, = 3 dr. 2 ob. Year 21?
6of Antoninus Caesar the lord, (month, day).
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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
    13790 man Ammonios praktor 2 Ἀμμώνιος Greek, Ancient

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Antoninus Pius 21 157 CE 158 CE date according to parallel text O.Wilck. 232;

     

    Pictures

    BL_12476_S1_001
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 308988
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 76810
    Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;243
    Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 308988 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12476), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.