Ostr. London, British Library 12476

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 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

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

Modern Title	Receipt for the price of public dates
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ammonios I scribe
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

Transcription

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

¹ ed. Σωκ(ράτης)
² Πετε[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὑπ(ὲρ)]
³ l. τιμῆς
⁴ ed. [φοίνικος ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]
⁵ l. τρεῖς

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1	Ammonios and Sokration, the 2 collectors
2	of money taxes at Elephantine. Thus has paid Menophilos,
3	the elder, son of Orbais, on account of Petesouchos, (son of Harpaesis?),
4	for the price of public dates of the harvest of year 20?,
5	three drachmae, two obols, = 3 dr. 2 ob. Year 21?
6	of Antoninus Caesar the lord, (month, day).

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Ἐλεφαντίνης (places.xml#3)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13790	man	Ammonios praktor 2	Ἀμμώνιος	Greek, Ancient

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;

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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.