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Ostr. London, British Library 13993 (5791m)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. London, British Library 13993 (5791m)
Publication Number O.Wilck. 1157
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: medium
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Krall, Jakob
Certainty: medium

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) complete
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, 1. hand practised cursive, subscript tax farmer: unpracticed, clumsy hand.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for a prostitute
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content The telonai Pelaias and Sokration grant to the prostitute Thinabdella the right to sleep on a certain day with whomever she wishes. In yea 19 of Trajan, Phaopi 10.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text new ed. Nelson; Duttenhöfer: l. 5 date corr: year 19!, l. 6 simo= sesemeiomai?
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman Man
Comment on Gender prostitute (hetaira) in business
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Πελαίας καὶ Σωκρατίων τελῶναι ἑταίρᾳ
2Θιναβδελλᾷ χαίρειν. ἐπιχοροῦ-
3μεν 1l. ἐπιχωροῦ|μεν σοι τῇ ὑπογεγραμένῃ 2 l. ὑπογεγραμμέν(ῃ)
4ἡμέρᾳ μεθʼ οὗ ἐὰν 3 l. ἂν θέλῃς ἐν-
5θάδε κοιμᾶσθαι. (ἔτους) ιθ// 4ed. ιδ; // Nelson: "the third" Φαοφι 5l. Φαω(φι) ι.
6Σωκράτων 6 l. Σωκρατίων Σίμωνος 7or: σιμω, l. σημείω(μαι).

1 l. ἐπιχωροῦ|μεν
2 l. ὑπογεγραμμέν(ῃ)
3 l. ἂν
4 ed. ιδ; // Nelson: "the third"
5 l. Φαω(φι)
6 l. Σωκρατίων
7 or: σιμω, l. σημείω(μαι)
convex
1Pelaias and Sokration, tax farmers, to the prostitute
2Thinabdella greetings. We give permission
3to you on the day indicated below
4to sleep with whomever you wish
5in this place. Year 19, Phaophi 10.
6Sokration, son of Simon. (or: I have signed.)
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4433 man Pelaias telones Πελαιας Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Trajan 19 Phaophi 10 115 October 7 CE date corrected: year 19! (cf. photo) (against year 14, cf. BL 2.1, p. 94; ZPE 128, 1999, p. 174);

 

Pictures

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BL_13993_S2_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 308989
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 77560
Papyri.info ddbdp/o.wilck;;1157
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308989 (= Ostr. London, British Library 13993 (5791m)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.